patrick295767 patrick295767 <patrick295...@gmail.com> writes: > Let's take an example: > > Let's take a well-known program: vim compiled for Windows. If you use > gvim.exe in Windows, you have a perfect result. No simple problem with > characters. > However, if you take vim.exe (from the same directory as gvim.exe) and > use it in the windows console (execute: cmd then type vim), you end up > with strange chars if you are using special accents, and so on. > (with a well configured terminal). > > I just would like to point that problems, even on well known programs, > may still today be present (and quite annoying for some users). > Vim has more than 20 years existence, but still, some problems may > still exist with characters, although Unicode/utf-8,.. are there to > make it easier. > (It is a bug).
That's because the standard Windows terminal is terrible. I would advise never using it. Pretty much every other terminal in works properly, because they don't try to simulate some ancient DOS abomination. -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen
