Fwd: Status of support for Indian languages

For some reason google kicked back vim_multibyte as not
existing... Anyway...see below...

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Subject:	Re: Status of support for Indian languages
Date:	Mon, 12 Aug 2013 17:00:05 -0700
To:	vim_multibyte@googlegroups.com
CC:	vim-multibyte@vim.org

Arnab Bhattacharya wrote:

Till now, Vim has very poor support for Indian languages.

Is there as workable solution yet?

Arnab

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What were you looking for?  I.e. it may be your OS version of Vim.


The above has Devangari and a few other characters.

But it's displaying using X11 on Windows displaying from linux.

Using a Windows-text window:



Microsoft is poor about keeping up with the Unicode standard....
Most of their stuff is back at Unicode V1.0 (when UCS-2 held
everything).  Ever since unicode has been growing MS has been
getting more behind.