On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Gene Kwiecinski wrote: > >>thanks for your help. Even though I can see 'mu' and can insert it into > text >>using gvim, cat 'file' still displays just '?' where the character > should go. >>So I guess that this terminal (rox-term) is not configured to display > greek >>letters. I'll have to figure out how to set it up. > > Ummm, if it's a *console*, isn't it limited to single-byte characters?
No, though if we're talking about something like /dev/tty* you're limited to 256 glyphs in a font. That's a limitation of the fonts, though, and not the terminal emulation. > That means typically only Latin1 (0-127) and Latin2 (128-255) > characters. Everything else would be unknown/undisplayable if it's not > in the console font. > > It might be smart enough to recognise that it's a multibyte unicode > character, and display it as a *single* '?' char (and not as 2-, 3-, or > 4 chars in the sequence), but if it's not in the font itself, it won't > be displayed correctly, just as a placeholder char. But all of that assumes a console like /dev/tty*, not one like xterm. Of course a terminal emulator like xterm can support millions of glyphs. And rox-term is (IIRC) a libvte-based terminal emulator just like gnome-terminal. ~Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
