Lcd wrote:
> On 5 September 2015, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Let's say I want to define ,, (two commas) as a digraph for … (U+2026
> > HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS). At the moment, in [g]vim 7.4.854 (with +multi_byte
> > and 'encoding' set to utf-8),
> > :dig ,, 8230
> > does it, but
> > :dig ,, 0x2026
> > doesn't (AFAICT, it fails silently). The only way to use the hex value
> > explicitly is at the moment
> > :exec 'dig ,,' 0x2026
> > which is ugly.
> > Now the Unicode Consortium lists all codepoints by hex value, so the
> > decimal equivalent is losing currency. Even in HTML, where once upon a time
> > … or … would have been the only valid entities for that
> > character, … is now a third valid alternative. So why not in Vim
> > digraphs?
> >
> > N.B. Of course, if (let's say) patch 875 fixes it, "cautious" scripts will
> > at first either still use the backward-compatible decimal number (or the
> > :execute workaround), or test
> > :if version > 704 || (version == 704 && has('patch875'))
> > but it will be usable manually as soon as compiled-in.
>
> Please try the patch below. It (hopefully) makes the :digraphs
> command accept hex and octal values.
Thanks! Would it be too much to ask for a test? I don't think we have
any tests for digraphs, would be useful to have a few basic ones.
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