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

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

> regards,
> Christian

Thanks for replying.

Here is what my ubuntu 12.10 (quetzal) vim --version shows related to patches:

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Oct 26 2012 16:45:34)
Included patches: 1-547

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More recent ubuntu releases do not have more patches, according to the ubuntu packages website:

raring (editors): Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
2:7.3.547-6ubuntu5: amd64 i386

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ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/patches/7.3/README does say verify what you say about a possible multi-byte glitch being fixed:
8587 7.3.856 system() garbles multi-byte clipboard contents

So I appreciate your suggestion and would like to apply the patch. But I don't want to compile vim from source code. Seems like a wild goose chase. Is there any other suggestion?

As an alternative, I tried reinstalling the DOS version vim73_46 file, but as expected it says 7.3.46 when it starts up. So next I looked for a DOS version with all the patches applied.

http://wyw.dcweb.cn/#download promised this. I downloaded and installed this DOS version with 7.3.918 but it also does not work correctly when using copy and paste for Spanish text. It malfunctions differently, but still garbles the letters. I changed the encoding from latin1 to utf-8 and tried again. Still garbles the letters. So I have patches up to 918 and does not seem to work.

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Does anyone out there copy and paste non-English text into vim using the stable vim release? I copy and paste English text all the time, would be incredibly inefficient if I could not. It's a little hard for me to believe, with the huge non-English-speaking usage, I'm the only one that has noticed this problem. Could someone please take a look at my original post and tell me what I need to do different. Thanks

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