A friend of mine sent me text file containing some special glyphs I can't seem to get to display right on my system. We both use Vim 7.2. The main difference is that I have Vim (vim-gtk) installed on Kubuntu 9.04 whereas he has the default windows executable downloaded and configured under WinXp. I have encoding set to utf-8, he uses latin-1 as the default.
Let's take the • characters as an example, which are displayed as <95> on my screen. When I do 'ga' on that glyph, I get: <<95>> 149, Hex 0095, Octal 225 I figured out by googling that this character does not belong to Latin‑1 character set. It is part of the Windows-1252 character set and can be used with most Windows applications, including MS Word. (http://www.danshort.com/ASCIImap/indexhex.htm). I've also tried a dozen different default fonts shipped with Kubuntu to see if they fix the issue and even installed the same font (Consolas.ttf) he uses with no luck. 'Fileencodings' setting in my gvimrc is set as: set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1 When I do :fileencoding? after have opened the file, I get latin1 as should. I know these encoding issues are complicated and have fought for hours to understand them and get my system to display the characters right but in vain. So finally decided to ask from here how to get those special characters to display right. Any insights appreciated. And a snippet of the file in question is here: http://iki.fi/~pyyhttu/temp/AE.txt -- Tuomas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
