On 15/04/10 08:24, Boyko Bantchev 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?
Best,
Boyko
Well, Vim is perfectly capable of displaying these characters... if your
'guifont' (in the case of gvim) or whatever font is used by your
terminal (in the case of console Vim) has a glyph for them. You are
using gvim, aren't you? If you aren't, maybe you should.
I'm not sure what algorithm Firefox for Windows uses when there is a
missing glyph in a font, it may depend on your "Font" preferences and/or
(in HTML) on whether there are more than one font faces mentioned in the
face= attribute to the <font> tag or in the "font-family" style rule: if
several fonts are mentioned, HTML and CSS standards mandate that, _for
each character_, the first (leftmost) installed font which has a glyph
for that character will be used. In gvim, OTOH, even though you may
specify more than one font in the 'guifont' option, the first
_installed_ one will be used for all characters to be displayed,
regardless of whether that font has a glyph for any particular character
(GTK2 gvim is an exception but it runs only on X11, not on "native"
Windows).
So I suggest that you try other fonts, by means of
:set guifont=*
until you find one which has the required glyphs. (I would have thought
Courier_New had them, but, well, maybe it doesn't.)
See also http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Setting_the_font_in_the_GUI
Best regards,
Tony.
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