Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Hi,
I want to remap the german umlauts to "{","[","]" and "}" in normal
mode only.
When I type the umlauts on the commandline of my zsh there is no
problem.
When I type them in insert mode in vim: no problems.
Therefore I /think/ (read: dont no for sure) that there should be no
problem.
In my $HOME/.vimrc I wrote:
nnoremap o [
nnoremap a ]
nnoremap O {
nnoremap A }
(I replaced the umlauts with their corresponding vowels here in this
mail only -- just to make them displayable in any case...)
But this does not work. With the :map command I can see the maps but
the umlauts looks like 8bit-something. Two of them are displayed as
two characters.
Then I tried:
nnoremap <o> <[>
nnoremap <a> <]>
nnoremap <O> <{>
nnoremap <A> <}>
which results in nothing: Now the "corrupted" maps via the :map
command has vanished completly.
Now I got an Error message displayed in front of my inner eye:
"WARNING! Idea stack underflow!"
What can I try else ?
Thank you very much for any help in advance !
Keep hacking!
mcc
You should not change 'encoding' after setting your maps; and if your vimrc's
'fileencoding' is not your 'encoding' then it ought to have a
":scriptencoding" statement.
Or else, you can encode it in 7-bit ASCII using <Char-nn> notation, e.g.
exe "noremap <Char-196> }" | " LATIN CAPITAL A WITH DIAERESIS
exe "noremap <Char-214> {" | " LATIN CAPITAL O WITH DIAERESIS
exe "noremap <Char-228> ]" | " LATIN SMALL A WITH DIAERESIS
exe "noremap <Char-246> [" | " LATIN SMALL O WITH DIAERESIS
The above should work regardless of whether your 'encoding' is Latin1, UTF-8,
or (I think) cp1252; but if you use an 'encoding' different from your "locale"
charset, you should still set 'encoding' first and define the mappings
afterwards. (I use ":exe" wrapping here to allow a comment on the same line.)
Similarly:
Ä 196 0xC4 LATIN CAPITAL A WITH DIAERESIS
Ö 214 0xD6 LATIN CAPITAL O WITH DIAERESIS
Ü 220 0xDC LATIN CAPITAL U WITH DIAERESIS
ß 223 0xDF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
ä 228 0xE4 LATIN SMALL A WITH DIAERESIS
ö 246 0xF6 LATIN SMALL O WITH DIAERESIS
ü 252 0xFC LATIN SMALL U WITH DIAERESIS
see
:help <Char>
:help :scriptencoding
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf
etc.
Best regards,
Tony.
