Re: vim + win + utf-8 => I'm lost

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 04:43, Linda W wrote:
> Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>>
>> I got this today by private mail; but the particular question is somewhat
>> outside my experience: I have upgraded from Windows to Linux some years ago,
>> and I always use English (not Polish or Slovenian) menus with 'encoding' set
>> to UTF-8 (not 1250 or 65001).
>>
>> Anyone willing to try?
>
> ---
>        Try what?  What's the question?

Hello Linda,

there is a slightly longer explanation on
http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/d55a0c0edcac2f30?pli=1

The menus of languages that use "Central European" encoding are broken.

This thread was originally refering to a problem on XP where I indeed
had problems (default encoding was cp1250 back then) that has been
solved on this list with a few extra commands, but now I have a
problem on Windows 7 were I got stuck.

> I use vim+win+utf8...I think vim is utf8 by default on win, no?

Vim and UTF-8 is working perfectly well, no objection to that. In
constart to XP now Vim uses UTF-8 encoding for all the documents by
default (hurray!). It's the *encoding in menus* that isn't working,
but "Western European" luanguages (Latin1) should not notice the
problem since Latin1 equals Unicode in the first 256 characters. It
should be easy to test by switching the language of Windows temporary
(one doesn't need to reboot the computer for that) to some Central
European language or by calling vim with --cmd "lang
Polish_Poland.1250".

I suspect that Vim reads the "Locale" settings of Windows, but they
are partially there for "applications that do not support UTF-8" which
means that it reads as Slovenian_Slovenia.1250 here even though
Windows themselves are UTF-8. Consequently Vim starts passing
cp1250-encoded characters to Windows (for building menus), but Windows
interprets them as UTF-8 and one gets what has been attached in the
screenshot in previous message. I checked for a few characters and
they are all consistent with the described behaviour.

For example (see screenshot) - the following string comes from menu_polish*.vim

> Podręcznik\ &użytkownika

ę - has code 0xEA in cp1250
ê - has code 0xEA in Unicode

ż - has code 0xBF in cp1250
¿ - has code 0xBF in Unicode

So instead of "Podręcznik użytkownika" one gets "Podêrcznik
u¿ytkownika". I guess the rest of characters is also consistent with
that.

Mojca

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