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

On Saturday, September 7, 2013 11:26:39 PM UTC+2, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Saturday, September 7, 2013 10:52:59 AM UTC-5, Sibin wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Arnab Bhattacharya <arnabbha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > No, as of now, Indic scripts are not supported well by vim.
> > >
> > > Arnab
> > >
>
> Not supported WELL. Because IIUC they reshape and such depending on what surrounds them. But If a font has a glyph for it, Vim should be able to display SOMETHING besides a "no character" block. That little rectangle displayed is not Vim's fault, it's the way the font tells you it has no such character.

That's a tad too apologetic for my taste. I have never been able to work
with Indic scripts in Vim. You might get a base character to be
displayed correctly, but things get mangled quickly once you add the
diacritic vowels and ligatures to the mix. What's worse, the cursor
tends to jump around unpredictably when editing Indic text.

But maybe your setup works better.

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