Frodak wrote:
--- Steve Hall wrote:
From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 12:54 pm
Steve Hall wrote:
From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 11:58 am
I often have to paste from Word for Windows
into vim/gvim
(cygwin). Some characters don't transfer
properly.
It could just be a font issue, make sure your
gvim font supports
non-ASCII characters. (I find Courier New or
Andale Mono provide
extensive support.)
I checked this out. I'm using gvim, and neither of
the fonts you
mentioned are in the list available. I literally
have thousands of
fonts on my machine however, so how does it choose
which font are
available, and which are not? Is there a separate
dir for them?
So if you do
:set guifont=*
you don't get a dialog displaying a list similar to
what you see when
you select a font in Notepad? I wonder if this is a
build issue, where
did you get your Vim?
--
Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ]
I've just installed the standard Cygwin/X and gvim
package, and cutting and pasting from Word works fine.
My .vimrc sets "encoding=utf-8"
set guifont?
guifont=
So the default font seems to be okay. Still I don't
know if the fonts that GTK/X/gvim uses covers all
unicode codepoints (i.e. all the possible characters
in unicode).
--
Frodak
IIUC, no font covers all the /possible/ codepoints in Unicode. Some fonts are
better for Chinese, others for Arabic, others for Latin, etc.
You might try the following:
if has("multi_byte")
if &encoding !~? '^u' " no change needed if already in Unicode
if &termencoding == ""
let &termencoding = &encoding " avoid clobbering the keyboard encoding
endif
set encoding=utf-8
endif
else
echoerr("Error: Mutibyte support not compiled-in")
endif
if has("gui_running") " 'guifont' doesn't work in the console
if has("gui_gtk2") " GTK+2 but not GTK+1
set guifont=Courier\ New\ 10
elseif has("gui_kde") " the obsolete kvim (6.2 or earlier)
set guifont=Courier\ New/10/-1/5/50/0/0/1/0
elseif has("gui_photon") " QNX Photon
set guifont=Courier\ New:s10
elseif has("x11") " other X11 GUIs, including GTK+1
set guifont=*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-m-*-*
else " non-X11 GUIs (Windows, Carbon, ...)
set guifont=Courier_New:h10
endif
endif
Once gvim is loaded, you can use
:set guifont=<Tab>
(assuming 'nocompatible' is set) to edit the font setting on the command-line.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
Mathematicians do it in theory.
