Re: matchpairs and Unicode

On 26/12/12 00:50, KamilS wrote:
>> ' (U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) and either ' (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE
>>
>> Depending on the language, two characters on each of the above lines may
>> be chosen, and in either order.
>
> I'm afraid my Vim says:
> E474: Invalid argument: matchpairs+=':'
>
> `:' and other ASCII combinations work fine. It is compiled with +multi_byte.
>

Yes, that is expected.

My post was in answer to the question "which multibyte characters do you
need?". As was mentioned earlier in this thread, and is documented under
":help 'matchpairs'", "Currently only single byte character pairs are
allowed, and they must be different." Without +multi-byte, any character
is single-byte but there are only 256 of them at most. With +multi_byte
and 'encoding' set to "utf-8", there are only 128 single-byte characters
(minus 32 control characters) but there are more than one million
characters in all.

The OP answered with only one pair, but I suppose that this is an
all-or-none question: if a possible *future* patch to the Vim C code
allows matching U+201C with U+201D, any other pair of (different)
characters (single-byte or not) in the current 'encoding' would be
acceptable too.


Best regards,
Tony.
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