Hello Chris,

I've tried to print in Linux (I use Linux Mint version 8, the printer is the
Print To PDF) and the result is the same as in Windows.

I think this is a bug.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:36:27AM EST, Đức Minh Thái wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I cannot get utf-8 characters printed correctly. For example:
> >
> > bột
> >
> > becomes
> >
> > bá»™t
>
> U+1ED9   ộ   LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND DOT BELOW
>
> See:
>
> :help ga
>
> In utf-8, this character is encoded by the following sequence of three
> bytes:
>
> 0xe1, 0xbb, 0x99
>
> See:
>
> :help g8
>
> This is what a utf-8 encoded file with the three characters 'bột'
> actually contains:
>
> 00000000  62 e1 bb 99 74 0a                                 |b...t.|
> 00000006
>
> 0x62             b   LATIN SMALL LETTER B
> 0xe1,0xbb,0x99   ộ   LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX AND DOT BELOW
> 0x74             t   LATIN SMALL LETTER T
>
> The final 0x0a is a line feed control character.
>
> In Microsoft Windows' cp1252:
>
> 0xe1    á
> 0xbb    »
> 0x99    ™
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
>
> You do not give much detail as to where you see what, but I am probably
> not far off the mark assuming that 'bột' is what you see when editing a
> utf-8 encoded file in vim, and that 'bá»™t' is what you see on your
> printout.
>
> Being unfamiliar with Microsoft Windows, I'm speculating a bit, but it
> does look like your printing software is processing the file as if it
> were cp1252 rather than utf-8.
>
> > My printing options are:
> >
> > set printfont=LMMono10:h10 " This is the LMMono from LaTeX Latin Modern
> > set printoptions=number:y
> > set printencoding=ucs-2le bomb
>
> If your file is utf-8 encoded, why do you tell vim that it is ucs2..?
>
> :h penc-option
>
> In particular, this help file states that:
>
> Code page 1252 print character encoding is used by default on Windows
> and OS/2 platforms.
>
> > Please help. Thank you!
>
> I am not familiar with Microsoft Windows, so I don't really have an
> answer to your question but you could try:
>
> :set penc=
>
> or..
>
> :set penc=utf-8
>
> and see if the 'bột' string prints correctly.
>
> My understanding is that compiled with the adhoc +options, Vim should be
> able to process utf-8 encoded files transparently on any platform but
> you may also want to ask Vim to convert the file.
>
> Take a look at:
>
> :h ++enc
> :h ++ff
>
> If that doesn't help, please attach a small sample file, see if someone
> on the list can come up with something more conclusive.
>
> CJ
>
>
>
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