[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Long time Vim user, first time hacker.
>
> I've recently noticed that although the Windows console has supported
> Unicode since Windows 2000,
> Vim for the Windows console doesn't yet support Unicode.
>
> There are two ways to write Unicode to the Windows console: Native
> Windows UCS-2/UTF-16
> accessed via Windows's ...W APIs and UTF-8 accessed via Windows's ...A
> APIs after setting the
> console's code page to UTF-8. I'm assuming the latter method will be
> easier for Vim.
>
> To see how Vim currently behaves in UTF-8 here are the steps:
>>From the Start menu choose "Run"
> Enter "cmd /u" (this makes the console filehandles pipes etc work with
> Unicode)
> Type into the console "chcp 65001" (this sets the code page to UTF-8)
> Change the terminal font to a Unicode font: Right click title bar,
> Properties, Font, Lucida Console.
> Now run Vim.
>
> Even at startup the display is corrupt. My first guess is a
> discrepancy between number of bytes and number of characters in
> displayed strings. Note that :set termenc=utf8 and :set enc=utf8 have
> no effect.
> Note also that attributes (colours) and input seem to work fine.
>
> I'm just feeling my way around the Vim code so far but os_win32.c /
> write_chars() has caught my eye.
> Perhaps somebody on this list can direct me where else to look in the
> code.
>
> Andrew Dunbar.
I guess there is a misunderstanding between Vim and its terminal.
Try
set LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
just before starting Vim.
Best regards,
Tony.
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