On Monday 15 Feb 2010 18:39:35 shimi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Geoff Shang <ge...@quitelikely.com> wrote: > > So can anyone tell me if Vi (or possibly a clone) has UTF-8 support, and > > if so, if she needs to do anything special to activate it? > > Google says: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/mbyte.html > > Of course that like any terminal application, the terminal itself needs to > be able to display what you expect it to display, and this is especially > true when you are talking about text rendered on the "wrong direction", > e.g. Hebrew, Arabic, etc. >
Vim also has a GUI version (gvim) that can be used to avoid the problems with the terminal and uses X/Gtk+ or the Windows API directly. I should note that you can flip the direction of the entire Right-to-left text in Vim in the terminal too, without being dependent on the terminal's whims, but in any way either Hebrew/Arabic or Latin would be reversed, so it's not truly bi- directional. Regards, Shlomi Fish > -- Shimi -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Why I Love Perl - http://shlom.in/joy-of-perl Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il