Re: Introducing a dedicated unicode mode in Vim

> Hi folks, I was thinking about the following idea.
>
> As Rust introduced usage of non-ascii characters as identifiers
> < https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/06/17/Rust-1.53.0.html#unicode-identifiers >,
> I wanted to know that will it be interesting to add a dedicated support
> for typing unicode characters in Vim? Like we have insert and replace
> modes, will it be useful to have a "unicode-mode" which when activated
> can enable a typist to type in unicodes at ease and allow them to type
> those characters continuously? Current implementations of using <C-v> for
> unicodes and <C-k> for digraphs become tedious for typing continually.
>
> Of course, people will use this mode while writing various documents as
> well, and it will not merely be specific to rust devs.
>
> What do you folks think about this?

We already have support for input methods. These were originally aimed
at Asian language, but should work for anything.

Implementation of an input method is tricky and involves user
preferences. Making something Vim-specific has the disadvantage that
you can't use it in other programs.

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