Re: vim and Arabic/Farsi support

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
-On [20071203 17:34], Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven ([email protected]) wrote:
>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

To add and clarify (had to finish the other email in a haste):

What I wrote here above is how I see it on vim on my FreeBSD box through PuTTY
as well as in gvim on Windows XP. So leaving aside the strange translation
behaviour of, I guess, PuTTY, clearly vim is showing the wrong characters.

Ughn, to make it even more confusing (I just tested something):

When I :set arabicshape I get ﺖﻏییﺭ, i.e. what I wrote above.
When I :set noarabicshape I get تغییر, i.e. what I expect it to be.

Arabicshape is, when on, the option that should enable the proper initials and
so on.

I'm thoroughly confused by now so any help/clarification is welcome.
Man, dealing with East Asian glyphs is easy in comparison! :P

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