Re: Searching for combined characters

* Sven Guckes <guckes@guckes.net> [2012-08-18 01:13]:
> * Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso <sdaoden@gmail.com> [2012-08-18 00:10]:
> > On the unicode@unicode list there was a thread on
> > combining characters, (Why no combining-character form
> > for U+00F8?), and it turns out that vim(1) isn't
> > capable to perform a normalized search either!?
> > ... then with 'Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15..)..
> > Should i update?
> three days ago Bram issued patch #633 for vim 7.3.
> maybe one of these addresses and fixes your problem?

addendum:
these are the 13 patches which contain the word "unicode":

## yyyy-mm-dd size subject message-id
1 2011-Feb-25 |2.6K| Patch 7.3.132 <201102251419.p1PEJ7QP013241@...>
2 2011-Jun-19 | 36K| Patch 7.3.220 <201106182228.p5IMSHKU016002@...>
3 2011-Jun-26 |2.9K| Patch 7.3.236 <201106261714.p5QHEA59005698@...>
4 2011-Jul-15 |3.4K| Patch 7.3.250 <201107151355.p6FDt2RA013348@...>
5 2011-Jul-20 | 24K| Patch 7.3.259 <201107201558.p6KFwYZJ020539@...>
6 2011-Aug-10 |4.2K| Patch 7.3.276 <201108101431.p7AEVdbX016787@...>
7 2011-Aug-10 |8.9K| Patch 7.3.277 <201108101508.p7AF8Fmb019594@...>
8 2011-Dec-08 |3.4K| Patch 7.3.365 <201112081410.pB8EA8dS027505@...>
9 2012-Feb-12 |5.5K| Patch 7.3.440 <201202120035.q1C0ZXlF006978@...>
10 2012-Jun-29 |130K| Patch 7.3.569 <201206291055.q5TAtAcF032037@...>
11 2012-Jun-29 |7.4K| Patch 7.3.579 <201206291428.q5TESmMD019891@...>
12 2012-Jun-29 |4.1K| Patch 7.3.581 <201206291715.q5THFAk0003027@...>
13 2012-Aug-15 | 14K| Patch 7.3.632 <201208151421.q7FELntg021993@...>

let's look at the patch descriptions:

## patch problem description
1 7.3.132 C++ style comments.
2 7.3.220 Python 3: vim.error is a 'str' instead of an 'Exception' object,..
3 7.3.236 Python 3 doesn't compile without +multi_byte
4 7.3.250 Python: Errors in Unicode characters not handled nicely.
5 7.3.259 Equivalence classes only work for latin characters.
6 7.3.276 GvimExt sets $LANG in the wrong way.
7 7.3.277 MS-Windows: some characters do not show in dialogs.
8 7.3.365 Crash when using a large Unicode character in a file that has syntax highlighting.
9 7.3.440 Vim does not support UTF8_STRING for the X selection.
10 7.3.569 Evaluating Vim expression in Python is insufficient.
11 7.3.579 Can't compile with Python 2.5.
12 7.3.581 Problems compiling with Python.
13 7.3.632 Cannot select beyond 222 columns with the mouse in xterm.

hmm... well... maybe this hasnt been fixed yet. ;-)

Sven

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