Re: Weird:: substitute by using register with combinations

On Thursday, April 4, 2013 11:53:16 PM UTC-5, William Fugh wrote:
> It's OK if execute the following in command-line directly
> :%s#combinations#œ̄ṣ́#g
>
> However, if like this:
> :let @w = "%s#combinations#œ̄ṣ́#g"
> :@w
> the combinations will be lost. :-(
>
>

I had to try it out to determine what you meant, but I reproduced the problem in Windows 7 64-bit, running Vim 7.3.822.

Better problem description:

With text:

one combinations two combinations three

Executing :%s#combinations#œ̄ṣ́#g directly, will correctly replace the text with:

one œ̄ṣ́ two œ̄ṣ́ three

But saving "%s#combinations#œ̄ṣ́#g" to register w, and then executing with :@w, results in:

one œṣ two œṣ three

Note the lack of combining characters in the resulting text.

At this point, :reg w shows:

--- Registers ---
"w %s#combinations#œ̄ṣ́#g

So the register value was set properly, this seems like a problem in Vim.

This all happens with gvim -N -u NONE -i NONE, after only setting encoding to utf-8 and setting an appropriate font.

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