On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Boyko Bantchev <[email protected]> wrote:
> In Vim 7.2 under Windows XP, I cannot see some characters in utf-8 > encoded files, e.g. ∀ (U+2200), ∃ (U+2203), ∈ (U+2208), ℝ (U+211d) > etc. However, such a file looks o.k. in Firefox. In Vim I use > Courier New font, which I believe is also used for plain text in > the browser. > > Do others have the same experience? Why is it so? > Yes, your experience is shared by others. It's because the font does not have a character mapped to every unicode value. (UTF-8 is the encoding for the unicode code points.) I suggest trying a different font. I've fiddled with them before and know that some have much better code point coverage than others, but it's been long enough that I can't really recommend a specific font. There is no font that covers everything. You have to experiment to find the ones that best cover the characters you need to display. There are a number of very nice, free monospaced fonts available online. Quite a few have been mentioned in previous threads. You might check some of the older messages for other suggestions. I know the topic came up just a few weeks ago because I downloaded a few of the ones suggested. -- Jay -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
