On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:00:54PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Since I generally use vim for most editing, I think I'm going to check out > those packages that Wichert mentioned. But yudit is worth looking into as well. Wow, I am quite impressed with vim 6.0, even though it is only in alpha now. I had already done most of the work to set up Unicode support; I used my startu wrapper around the startx script to start up X with a UTF-8 locale, and my xterm is configured to start in UTF-8 mode with a Unicode font. That said, in vim, I tried the default digraphs (which have been changed to be RFC-compliant), which worked nicely, and I entered a pair of obscure Unicode characters, one of which was combining, and I must say that vim is the ONLY editor I have seen, on any platform, to render this combination correctly. It also handled properly the distinction between nonspacing and spacing modifier characters. This is amazing support. For reference, the obscure characters I used were U+0283 and U+034D if I remember correctly. I believe I was using a fixed font from the ucs-fonts distribution. The only negative thing I noticed was, when I entered this obscure combination and then pressed the right and left arrow keys a few times, the character É (that's a capital e with an acute accent) replaced what I had entered on the screen. I am confident that this is merely a display problem appropriate to alpha-quality software, since when I pressed Ctrl+L to redraw the screen it rendered properly again. - Jimmy Kaplowitz jimmy@debian.org
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