Re: vim and Arabic/Farsi support

Hi Ed,

[Please let me know if people deem this outside of Unicode's mailinglist
scope.]

-On [20071203 16:44], Ed Trager ([email protected]) wrote:
> (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 &

Actually I used it through PuTTY (using full Unicode translation) on a FreeBSD
machine using en_US.UTF-8 as well as gvim on Windows XP.
So in essence: FreeBSD + vim <> PuTTY on Windows XP

The word in question is تغییر and when I copy it in Notepad or view the edited
file (in vim) with Firefox it shows up as it should, that is:

u+062a ARABIC LETTER TEH
u+063a ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
u+06cc ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH
u+06cc ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH
u+0631 ARABIC LETTER REH

Now, in vim, when I copy it through PuTTY and paste it in Notepad I get: ﺖﻏییﺭ
That is:

u+fe96 ARABIC LETTER TEH FINAL FORM
u+fecf ARABIC LETTER GHAIN INITIAL FORM
u+06cc ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH
u+06cc ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH
u+fead ARABIC LETTER REH ISOLATED FORM

I just noticed that when I copy from Firefox into gvim on Windows XP and then
copy from gvim to paste into Notepad it does the right thing.
So I guess that it might be PuTTY that's messing up something even though its
translation is set to UTF-8.

I just wonder why these letters would get so strangely corrupted along the
way.

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