On Mon, Apr 27, at 10:22 smu johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used to run vim 6.0 or so that came with an old Ubuntu installation, and
> out of the box, it left me edit Japanese UTF-8 type text files.
>
> Now, having compiled Vim 7.2 from Bram's source, it doesn't seem to support
> this out of the box. Instead shows a bunch of hideous ~^09 type characters
> for 1 character (or something that looks just as ugly.)
>
> I did this:
>
> *./configure
> make
> sudo make install
> *
> Is there a simple arg I can do to simply just get a function Vim without
> having to read 500 pages of documentation? Something like *./configure
> --add_basic_utf_support*
if the output of echo has('multi_byte') is 0, you might want to
configure vim with:
./configure --enable-multibyte
or
./configure --with-features=big
Read more in:
:help +multi_byte
or in the output of:
./configure --help
> smu johnson
Regards,
Agathoklis.
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.
For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
