Re: vim can't display characters properly(in other languages besides english).....

On 28/08/10 21:43, BC wrote:
>
> On Aug 28, 1:17 am, aksr<aksr.1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> windows xp sp2
>> latest vim (7.3)
>> -------
>> when i change the language for my keyboard(to serbian latin):
>>
>> if i put ":set encoding=latin1"
>> then i get this:
>> for chars(č,ć,š,đ,ž) i get(c,c,BS,d,BS): č-c, ć-c, š-(black square), đ-
>> d, ž-(black square)
>> ..and if i put ":set encoding=utf-8"
>> i get, for all(čćšđž), "black squares"...
>
> Just realized this, as I was experimenting with the above text pasted
> into my gvim:
> I have to set BOTH enc=utf-8 AND fenc=utf-8 if I want to be able to
> save and reopen the file without conversion errors. When they're both
> the same, your characters seem fine in every font I tried. Of course,
> I'm just pasting, not typing...
>

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode (and the help topics
listed there) have some info about using Vim to create multilingual files.

You can't type š č ć ž đ etc. when 'encoding' is set to Latin1 because
those characters are not among the 191 printable and 65 control
characters which make up the 255-character set of Latin1. These
characters are typical of Slavic or "East European" languages while
Latin1 is a "Western" encoding which can represent most European
languages used West of the former Iron Curtain, not including Greek,
Turkish, Maltese, and I'm not sure about Inuqtitut and Basque.

Best regards,
Tony.
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