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

Daniel <healthdatawarehouse@gmail.com> 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.

Copy/paste from Firefox into Vim does not work for me either for
non ASCII characters if I use the middle click to paste in Vim (terminal)
on Linux. It copies text, but messes up accents. I think that Vim puts
a latin1 string and then interprets it as utf-8 so it looks messed up.
Taking your example, if I copy/paste "síntoma" from Firefox with the
mouse, I see in Vim (terminal) "s<ed>ntoma" . <ed> being in Latin1:

355 237 ED í LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE

However, it works if I select the text in Firefox and drag it into the
terminal. Copy/paste also work with middle click in gvim.

I just realized now that copy paste actually works when I use
"vim -u NONE". So by trial and error, I searched for the minimalistic
.vimrc that can reproduce the problem. I can reproduce the
copy/paste bug as follows:

1/ create a minimalistic ~/.vimrc file:

$ cat ~/.vimrc
set enc=utf8
language eo.UTF-8
set mouse=a

2/ Start vim with:

$ vim --noplugin

3/ Copy a word with accents in Firefox such as "síntoma"
and paste it in Vim (terminal) with middle click.

4/ Observe the bug Vim pastes: s<ed>ntoma
Expected behavior was to paste "síntoma"
Note also that dragging the selection from Firefox
to Vim pastes correctly.

Interestingly, bug happens with the "eo.UTF8" language
but not with the "fr_FR.UTF8" language for example.

You may need to install the eo.UTF8 locale in order to reproduce
the bug with "sudo locale-gen eo.UTF8" as described here
for Ubuntu:

http://markushedlund.com/dev-tech/install-a-locale-on-ubuntu-11-10

Regards
Dominique

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