The Unicode font I am using for Vim works great. Except... I would like to use a private use area (PUA) alternative glyph for "zero", which has a slash through it.
I would like to use a private use area (PUA, non-BMP) alternative glyph for "asterisk", which looks better for coding. Is there an easy way to do that character-to-glyph mapping within Vim itself? I realize that one likely viable alternative is to get a font editor and rework it so the glyphs I prefer are the ones in the associated mapping. But I don't have a good OpenType font editor at the moment. And I have not check the font license, which may prohibit such modification for personal use. My current process of converting the files from their current format encoding to UTF-8, then substituting all U+0030 and U+002A to the PUA alternative glyph versions, then edit in Vim, then substitute the two PUA back to U+0030 and U+002A, then convert the file format from UTF-8 to the non-Unicode format is a bit bothersome because of manual, hackneyed, and has (embarrassingly) proven to be a bit user error prone. I end up using cut-n-paste to type the PUA glyph slashed-zero version 0 and PUA alternative-asterisk *, which also is a bit of a drag. -- 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
