Re: Display of Emoticons and characters from Indic scripts in GVim

On Friday, September 6, 2013 9:27:05 AM UTC-5, Sibin wrote:
> Hi,
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> Is it possible to read Unicode text with characters from Indic scripts (e.g. http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf) in GVim?
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> Similarly is it possible to display the emoticons (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F600.pdf) embedded in Unicode text when I open such text in GVim?
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> If the answer to either of the above questions are "Yes", then please tell me how to display these characters in GVim in my system*.
> Currently all I see are hollow square boxes and I have tried all the font options that are available via :se guifont=*. For the record, the options available to me are - Consolas, Courier, Courier New, Courier10 BT, DejaVu Sans Mono, Fixedsys, Lucida Console and Terminal.
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> * I work on a 64 bit Windows 7 system.
> Additional info, I have the following snippet embedded in my vimrc -
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> if has("multi_byte")
>   if &termencoding == ""
>     let &termencoding = &encoding
>   endif
>   set encoding=utf-8
>   setglobal fileencoding=utf-8
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>   "setglobal bomb
>   set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
> endif
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Yes, it's possible. And your settings look good. So you now need to find a font with the glyphs you want. Out of the fonts you list, I strongly suspect only DejaVu MIGHT have the ones you want, and apparently even DejaVu doesn't have them since you are seeing the "no character" box.

Time to hit an Internet search engine for a monospace font for Indic scripts.

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