Re: Vim accented characters in text based console

Thank you very much,

I'll look into these issues.
Vim is definitely a world in its own!

Luis

2010/4/11 Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com>:
> On 11/04/10 11:57, Luis P. Mendes wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>> thank you very much for your help and time trying to help me.
>>
>> Here are the results I got from vim.
>>
>> In X, vim (not gvim which I don't use) returns:
>
> I thought you had used gvim before, with no error.
>
>>  encoding=latin1
>>   termencoding=
>>
>> lang:    Current language:
>> "LC_CTYPE=pt_PT;
>
> ------------^
> This one specifies (system-wise) what "national settings" to use for
> character sets; IIUC when Vim sees this at startup it sets 'encoding' to
> latin1. ('termencoding' empty means "use 'encoding'" and is the default.)
>
>> LC_NUMERIC=C;
>> LC_TIME=pt_PT;
>> LC_COLLATE=pt_PT;
>> LC_MONETARY=pt_PT;
>> LC_MESSAGES=pt_
>> PT;LC_PAPER=pt_PT;
>> LC_NAME=pt_PT;
>> LC_ADDRESS=pt_PT;
>> LC_TELEPHONE=pt_PT;
>> LC_MEASUREMENT=pt_PT;
>> LC_IDENTIFICATION=pt_PT"
>>
>>  keymap=
>>   iminsert=0
>>
>> Ctrl-V followed by 233    é
>>
>> Ctrl-K then e then an apostrophe    é
>> and if I key: Ctrl-K then e then the accent mark followed by a space I
>> get a     é
>
> Hm. Normally the accent mark followed by e (without the Ctrl-K prefix) ought
> to give é then. If it doesn't, there may be something misconfigured, either
> in X (for Vim in xterm, konsole, gnome-terminal etc.) or in the kernel's
> keymap setting (for the Linux console). I don't know Slackware (my Linux
> system is openSUSE, which is loosely based on RedHat) so I wouldn't venture
> to tell you where to look for that.
>
>>
>>
>> In text console the results are the same.
>>
>> Another information:
>> I tried pico text editor in X, and am able to use accented characters.
>> In text mode console, I can't.  The symptoms are identical to vim's.
>> To use accented characters, I just have to press the accent first (ex.
>> ') and the base character I want accented (like e).
>>
>> So, I guess I have to check my Slackware system configuration instead of
>> vim's.
>>
>>
>> Luis
>
> Well, in the meantime you can use digraphs, see
>        :help digraph.txt
>        :help digraphs-default
>
> and in particular
>        Ctrl-K  e  apostrophe               gives é  (e-acute)
>        Ctrl-K  a  exclamation-mark         gives à  (a-grave)
>        Ctrl-K  o  question-mark            gives õ  (o-tilde)
>        Ctrl-K  c  comma                    gives ç  (c-cedilla)
> etc. Of course any precomposed character present on your keyboard should
> normally also be usable (my Belgian keyboard has a lot of these, see
> http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/other/keybbe.htm )
>
> Or you can use
>        :setlocal keymap=accents
>
> and use the dead-key prefixes defined in that keymap: apostrophe-e means
> e-acute, backtick-a means a-grave, tilde-o (with a spacing tilde) means
> o-tilde (with the tilde above the o), etc.: see
>        :view $VIMRUNTIME/keymap/accents.vim
>        :help 'keymap'
>        :help mbyte-keymap
>
> Of course, if you want to use an apostrophe followed by a vowel then, you
> will have to either switch the keymap temporarily off beforehand (see
> below), or else "break" the mapping, either by waiting for a timeout (by
> default one second, see :help 'timeoutlen', but 'timeout' [q.v.] must be on
> [not the default] for that) after the apostrophe, or by inserting some
> "do-nothing" key-sequence after the apostrophe, for instance <Left><Right>.
> To toggle between the keymap and your "normal" Portuguese keyboard (for
> Insert-Replace and Command-line modes, and the operands of Normal commands r
> f F t T ), use:
> - in Insert and Command-line modes: Ctrl-^
> - in Normal mode: :let &imi = !&imi
> see
>        :help i_CTRL-^
>        :help c_CTRL-^
>        :help 'iminsert'
>        :help 'imsearch'
> I recommend to set 'imsearch' to -1 (not the default) in your vimrc, so /
> and ? search commands use the same keyboard (your usual or the keymap) as in
> Insert mode at any particular time.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
> --
> "In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable."
>                -- Winston Curchill, of Montgomery
>

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