Re: GVim doesn't display Euro symbol ?

On 31/07/12 06:44, Dominique Pellé wrote:
> Lucas Sanner wrote:
>
>>> :language
>> "LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252;LC_TYPE=C;LC_MONETARY=French_France.
>> 1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=French_France.1252"
>
> The 1252 there indicates that your locale is not using
> Unicode but it's using the Windows code page 1252:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
>
> I don't know why Gvim on windows uses Windows code page
> by default and not Unicode. It's annoying. Is it Windows fault or
> Vim fault? I'm also surprised that I don't see LC_MESSAGES=...
>
> I remember that I had the same problem on Windows XP,
> and that for me setting the LANG env variable to fr_FR.UTF-8
> worked. I'm not sure why it's not working for you and I don't have
> a Windows machine to try again.
>
> I found this http://superuser.com/questions/207264/gvim-utf-8-in-windows
> which describe the same problem. The solution seems to
> be to install libiconv (iconv.dll) as described in above link.
>
> See also:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9591813/what-do-vims-iconv-dll-and-libintl-dll-do
>
>>> :verbose set enc?
>> encoding=utf-8
>
> That's good at least.
>
> By the way, you never indicated what version of Vim you're using.
> (output of :version)
>
> -- Dominique
>

Vim gets its "language" settings from the OS locale at startup. On
Linux, this usually means one of

en_US.UTF-8
fr_FR.UTF-8
de_AT.UTF-8
etc., so Vim uses UTF-8 by default there. But on Windows, typical
locales are things like

French_Belgium.1252
etc., and therefore Vim doesn't use UTF-8 by default on Windows. See
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode
about how to tell Vim near the top of your vimrc that you want it to use
UTF-8 rather than the OS locale. Similarly, if you want messages and
menus in English rather than in the OS locale language, you would use

if has('unix')
lang mess C
else
lang mess en
endif

near the top of your vimrc (Windows knows nothing about the C locale,
which is recognized on all POSIX installations).


Best regards,
Tony.
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