On Jul 1, 7:27 pm, Axel Kielhorn <v...@axelkielhorn.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm using:
>
> VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Jun 4 2012 19:19:42)
> MacOS X (unix) version
> Included patches: 1-531
>
> The default matchpairs are:
> matchpair(:),{:},[:]
>
> I can
> :set mps+=<:>
>
> to add a new matchpair, but I can't
>
> :set mps+=«:»
> or
> :set mps+=‹:›
>
> I get
> E474: Invalid argument: mps+=‹:›
>
> Shouldn't Vim accept any unicode character?
>
> Axel
It is documented under ":help 'matchpairs'":
"Currently only single byte character pairs are allowed, and they must
be different".
What is or isn't a single-byte character depends on how characters are
represented in memory (i.e. the global 'encoding' option), not on disk
(the buffer-local 'fileencoding'). If 'encoding' is set to "utf-8",
only the 128 lowest codepoints are single-byte, so you can add <:>
(0x3C 0x3E) but not «:» (0xAB 0xBB) and not ‹:› (U+2039 U+203A). If
'encoding' is set to Latin1, only the lowest 256 Unicode codepoints
can be represented in memory, each as a single byte, so in that case
you can add «:» but you cannot even represent ‹:› in memory (in any
buffer, since 'encoding' is a global option).
Best regards,
Tony.
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