On Thursday, September 13, 2012 3:56:56 PM UTC-4, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 13/09/12 19:57, MC Andre wrote: > > > I can copy and past the Unicode Delta symbol (οΏ½) in a normal Command > > Prompt window. > > > > > > I can copy and past ASCII Roman alphabetic text in vim and gVim. > > > > > > But I can't paste the Unicode Delta symbol (οΏ½) into vim nor gVim. > > > > > > Specs: > > > > > > * gVim 7.3 > > > * Windows 7 Professional x64 > > > > > I just pasted it from your mail into my running gvim (7.3.661 Huge with > > GTK2-GNOME2 GUI), and ga over it gives me: > > > > <οΏ½> 916, Hex 0394, Octal 1624 > > > > So the next question is: What is your 'encoding' set to? Type > > > > :verbose set encoding? > > > > and see what the answer is. If it is latin1 or cp1252, or indeed any > > 8-bit encoding other than a Greek one, the reason you can't paste the > > delta sign is that you haven't set gvim to be able to represent it in > > memory. In that case, see > > > > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode > > > > about how to set gvim to work in UTF-8 (which can represent anything > > that any other encoding can represent) and remember that any change to > > 'encoding' must happen in your vimrc, before any editfile is loaded, > > otherwise the files which _are_ already loaded at the time of the change > > will become garbled. > > > > > > Best regards, > > Tony. > > -- > > All things are possible, except skiing thru a revolving door.
On Thursday, September 13, 2012 3:56:56 PM UTC-4, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On 13/09/12 19:57, MC Andre wrote: > > > I can copy and past the Unicode Delta symbol (οΏ½) in a normal Command > > Prompt window. > > > > > > I can copy and past ASCII Roman alphabetic text in vim and gVim. > > > > > > But I can't paste the Unicode Delta symbol (οΏ½) into vim nor gVim. > > > > > > Specs: > > > > > > * gVim 7.3 > > > * Windows 7 Professional x64 > > > > > I just pasted it from your mail into my running gvim (7.3.661 Huge with > > GTK2-GNOME2 GUI), and ga over it gives me: > > > > <οΏ½> 916, Hex 0394, Octal 1624 > > > > So the next question is: What is your 'encoding' set to? Type > > > > :verbose set encoding? > > > > and see what the answer is. If it is latin1 or cp1252, or indeed any > > 8-bit encoding other than a Greek one, the reason you can't paste the > > delta sign is that you haven't set gvim to be able to represent it in > > memory. In that case, see > > > > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode > > > > about how to set gvim to work in UTF-8 (which can represent anything > > that any other encoding can represent) and remember that any change to > > 'encoding' must happen in your vimrc, before any editfile is loaded, > > otherwise the files which _are_ already loaded at the time of the change > > will become garbled. > You may also have to choose a font that supports these characters. In the font I am currently using type ctrl-k *a (ctrl-k followed by * followed by a) should show the greek letter alpha but instead it shows only a little square. -- 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
