Hi Daniel! On Mi, 08 Mai 2013, Daniel wrote:
> > Could you try a more recent vim version? I seem to remember several > > clipboard patches which were supposed to fix unicode misbehaviour. > > > regards, > > Christian > > Thanks for replying. > > Here is what my ubuntu 12.10 (quetzal) vim --version shows related to patches: > > VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Oct 26 2012 16:45:34) > Included patches: 1-547 > > --------------------------------- > > More recent ubuntu releases do not have more patches, according to the ubuntu > packages website: > > raring (editors): Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor > 2:7.3.547-6ubuntu5: amd64 i386 > > --------------------------------- > > ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/README does say verify what you say > about a possible multi-byte glitch being fixed: > 8587 7.3.856 system() garbles multi-byte clipboard contents > > So I appreciate your suggestion and would like to apply the patch. But I > don't want to compile vim from source code. Seems like a wild goose chase. Is > there any other suggestion? There are probably some PPA which provide more recent snapshots for Ubuntu. This one looks promising: https://launchpad.net/~nmi/+archive/vim-snapshots > > As an alternative, I tried reinstalling the DOS version vim73_46 file, but as > expected it says 7.3.46 when it starts up. So next I looked for a DOS version > with all the patches applied. > > http://wyw.dcweb.cn/#download promised this. I downloaded and installed this > DOS version with 7.3.918 but it also does not work correctly when using copy > and paste for Spanish text. It malfunctions differently, but still garbles > the letters. I changed the encoding from latin1 to utf-8 and tried again. > Still garbles the letters. So I have patches up to 918 and does not seem to > work. Are you using those on Windows? If so, then there might still be bugs in the Windows clipboard handling. I have however never noticed anything like that, I only know of X11 multibyte problems (which I thaught were fixed now). However I can't contribute to the Windows code. You might want to report this as bug to the vim-dev mailinglist. 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.
