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

Daniel M. Eldridge wrote:
> Humm...I was missing the encoding=utf-8 line but now--so now
> problem has not been solved.
>
> Now, instead of ???? marks I get solid blocks--the size of a
> character.

You need a font which supports the characters you are looking at.

DejaVu Sans Mono is an example of a great and free font:
http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page

There will still be lots of characters that are not supported by
a particular font.

Put the cursor on one of the solid-block characters and type ga
to see its hex (and decimal) code. You can also type g8 to see
the bytes used to represent that character in UTF-8. There will
be a page somewhere with a list of typical Unicode characters
and their hex codes, and you can copy/paste some into Vim to
confirm that you are getting the text, and that your problem is
therefore the font.

John

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