dear all, about an hour ago, i finally learned what ISO 10646, unicode, utf-2, utf-4 and utf-8 are. i never knew any of that stuff before today.
still don't know what a codepage is, but that can wait because i *think* it's microsoft related. when you use vim, i assume: * that what you type is encoded with ascii or latin-1. * the encoding is related to the characters you see on the xterm via the font the xterm is using. * the "stuff inside the encoding" (what gets encoded) is related to the keys that you press with your fingers via a vim keymap. and when you want to use a foreign language with vim, the best way to do that is: * start an xterm with a suitable font: "xterm -fn <fontname> -e vim" * use utf-8 encoding which uses encodes unicode and ISO10646 text. * load a suitable keymap to help make entering text easier. is all this correct so far? even in a "touchy-feely" way? i'm a complete newbie in this topic. if this is about correct, how does one tell vim to encode the text using utf-8? and how do you tell vim "i want to use language X whose characters are unicode number UT-Y through UT-Z? or doesn't it work quite that way? pete -- GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
