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

On Friday, September 6, 2013 7:57:05 PM UTC+5:30, 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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> --
> Regards,
> Sibin

No, as of now, Indic scripts are not supported well by vim.
Arnab

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