Re: Copy and paste Spanish from google translate into vim?

On Wed, May 8, 2013 09:03, Daniel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would be very thankful if someone could tell me how to set things up so
> I can copy and paste Spanish text from google translate into vim? I am
> sure there is some very simple way to do this, but I can't see it.
>
> When I enter English, lets say "symptom", into google translate, it gets
> translated into Spanish "síntoma" which I hope shows up OK here. I can
> copy and paste the Spanish into MS Word, works fine. When I paste to an
> HTML file I edit with vim, it does not work correctly. I use vim on ubuntu
> via a putty window, and right-click to paste, after entering insert mode.
> I can tell it does not work because it looks different than the same
> Spanish words that already exist in the file, and because the HTML that
> results does not display "síntoma" correctly (n and t are dropped). Other
> words with accents are also messed up.
>
> I set vim encoding to utf-8 (see below). I tried with LANG and LC_ALL set
> to C, en_US.UTF-8, es_US.UTF-8 but same problem.
>
> I am not asking about entering Spanish text by hand into vim. I need to
> copy and paste text blocks. I do not need any general help using vim, I've
> had a lot of experience. I did see a vim plugin for google translate by
> Maksim Ryzhikov, would be willing to try, but could find no directions
> other than a very unhelpful youtube video.
>
> Here is what is in a vim file after "síntoma" is pasted (n and t missing):
>
> $ od -cx temp.x
> 0000000 s 303 255 o m a \n
> c373 6fad 616d 000a
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> $ vim --version
> VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Oct 26 2012 16:45:34)
> Included patches: 1-547

Could you try a more recent vim version? I seem to remember several
clipboard patches which were supposed to fix unicode misbehaviour.

regards,
Christian

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