On Wed, May 8, 2013 09:03, Daniel wrote: > Hi, > > I would be very thankful if someone could tell me how to set things up so > I can copy and paste Spanish text from google translate into vim? I am > sure there is some very simple way to do this, but I can't see it. > > When I enter English, lets say "symptom", into google translate, it gets > translated into Spanish "síntoma" which I hope shows up OK here. I can > copy and paste the Spanish into MS Word, works fine. When I paste to an > HTML file I edit with vim, it does not work correctly. I use vim on ubuntu > via a putty window, and right-click to paste, after entering insert mode. > I can tell it does not work because it looks different than the same > Spanish words that already exist in the file, and because the HTML that > results does not display "síntoma" correctly (n and t are dropped). Other > words with accents are also messed up. > > I set vim encoding to utf-8 (see below). I tried with LANG and LC_ALL set > to C, en_US.UTF-8, es_US.UTF-8 but same problem. > > I am not asking about entering Spanish text by hand into vim. I need to > copy and paste text blocks. I do not need any general help using vim, I've > had a lot of experience. I did see a vim plugin for google translate by > Maksim Ryzhikov, would be willing to try, but could find no directions > other than a very unhelpful youtube video. > > Here is what is in a vim file after "síntoma" is pasted (n and t missing): > > $ od -cx temp.x > 0000000 s 303 255 o m a \n > c373 6fad 616d 000a > > ------------------------------------------------- > > $ vim --version > VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Oct 26 2012 16:45:34) > Included patches: 1-547
Could you try a more recent vim version? I seem to remember several clipboard patches which were supposed to fix unicode misbehaviour. regards, Christian -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
