Re: Copying text from wikipedia yields: lots of ???

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:26 PM, John Little <John.B.Little@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:55:34 PM UTC+13, Daniel M. Eldridge wrote:

Please don't top-post.

> Now, instead of ???? marks I get solid blocks--the size of a character.

That means your font doesn't have the character.  Vim doesn't cast about looking for any font that has a glyph, like browsers will.  Try another font; click Edit on the menu bar, -> Select Font, or

:set guifont=*

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/The_perfect_programming_font might be a place to start looking if you don't have a good one already.

BTW, 7.3.46 is quite old now, ~2006.  You can get a much more recent vim for windows from  http://cream.sourceforge.net/download.html.

Regards, John Little

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Thank-you John.

I've found a number of fonts that have increased coverage--more characters, but I'm confused about how to display more fonts in Edit | Select Font...

--Dan

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