Hello! I’m reposting this issue from vim_multibyte thanks to John Beckett's kind advice.
I was experimenting with the python3 interface and I stumbled upon the following phenomenon. Suppose the cursor is in the string абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя in a utf-8 encoded file. I run the following commands: :py3 import vim :py3 vim.current.line = vim.current.line Surprisingly last 16½ of 33 characters disappear. The same effect can be produced e. g. with :py3 l = vim.current.line :py3 vim.current.line = l However, the string l can be correctly printed and sent to vim via vim.command and setline. Hence I conclude that the transition from vim to python does not cause any loss of information. On the contrary, when the string is being passed from python to vim, vim (or python?) calculates that it is 33 ‘units’ long and copies 33 *bytes*. Experiments with less appaulling accented Latin letters show the same effect. For example, when the command :py3 vim.current.line = vim.current.line is applied to the line ‘aàáâãä', it yields aàá<c3> I’m running vim 7.3 on Windows 7. I’d like to find out whether this is a common effect and whether there exists an elegant way of changing multibyte strings from python3. Any help is appreciated. :) Stanislav -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
