On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:08:35AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
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> When your locale is a UTF-8 one, (isn't it? If not: fix it), and vim is
> built with multibyte support:
...
Tzafrir, overall UTF-8 locale may not be everyone's cup of tea for various
reasons. In my case, for example, I got addic
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 06:31:26PM +0200, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't use Vi so I don't have any idea about this.
>
> A friend is doing some translation work and needs to work in a UTF-8
> environment. She said she'd prefer to use Vi, but implied that she
> thinks that it doesn't have
2010/2/15 shimi
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Geoff Shang 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
>
If you ha
On Monday 15 Feb 2010 18:39:35 shimi wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Geoff Shang 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/mbyt
On Monday 15 Feb 2010 18:31:26 Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't use Vi so I don't have any idea about this.
>
> A friend is doing some translation work and needs to work in a UTF-8
> environment. She said she'd prefer to use Vi, but implied that she thinks
> that it doesn't have UTF-8 suppor
On Feb 15, 2010, at 18:31, Geoff Shang wrote:
She said she'd prefer to use Vi, but implied that she thinks that it
doesn't have UTF-8 support.
vim does.
Also, gvim might require less tweaking, than fighting uxterm/other
terminal app to make it display mbyte chars.
:help utf8
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Hi Geoff,
First of all, there is no VI anymore, only vim and other programs that
mimics VI.
On vim, you can use UTF-8 by either doing the following:
:set encoding=utf8
Or use it with a UTF-8 environment when executing it (and no other settings
effect the encoding).
Ido
http://ik.homelinux.o
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Geoff Shang 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 applica
