Re: gvim not showing unicode Devanagari - Hindi text

V S Rawat wrote:
> My gvim, vim 7.4 on w8 is not showing unicode Devanagari - Hindi text.
>
> What to do?
Use the Cygwin version.

I just tried the "Siddhanta" font:
Info:

Siddhanta font by Mihail Bayaryn is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License -
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. Based on a work at
http:/siddhanta.svayambhava.org. Permissions beyond the scope of this
license may be available at bayaryn@gmail.com. Latin and Cyrilic
character sets are modifications of DejaVu Serif font and can be used
according to Free license available here -
http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=License.

It displays in the cygwin-X server that I use to display windows
from 'linux' and from Windows.

The NATIVE GVIM port sucketh greatly in it's unicode support.
It isn't just a matter of a mono space font -- if it was, it likely
wouldn't work on linux-X and cygwin-X.

In a 'SecureCRT' (a non-free tty product I use for ssh and local
win-console usage) window:

lindaw> echo "अआइईउऐऒओऔतणढडठ"
अआइईउऐऒओऔतणढडठ
lindaw> uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 Athenae 1.7.33-2(0.280/5/3) 2014-11-13 15:47 x86_64 Cygwin


the same text in a cmd.exe window displays what the windows
version of Gvim does. Both are pretty broken for unicode suport.

Note, in the X versions, you aren't limited to 1 font, as the font
system allows you to pick ranges. In windows, you are more limited,
but at least it costs more (cygwin & linux are free).


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