Re: vim and Arabic/Farsi support
"Ed Trager" <[email protected]>
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Hi, Jeroen,
(1) Are you using vim with an RTL-capable terminal like mlterm?:
http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/
(2) Are you using vim in a UTF-8 locale?
~> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 mlterm &
Best - Ed Trager
On Dec 3, 2007 4:58 AM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Are there by chance people on this list that use vim and happen to
> type/display Arabic/Farsi texts with it?
>
> Over the weekend I had to muck around with Farsi and for some reason what got
> in the text (using utf-8) got displayed as final/stand-alone characters.
> Displaying it using my browser showed proper interpretation of the first
> letters of the word as ARABIC LETTER TEH (u062a) instead of the aforementioned
> ARABIC LETTER TEH FINAL FORM (ufe96).
>
> So I would love to find out if this is vim at fault or something else.
>
> --
> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai
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