annotate runtime/doc/mbyte.txt @ 13870:08370aad873d v8.0.1806

patch 8.0.1806: InsertCharPre causes problems for autocomplete commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/39de95257714b76ccd845d081cff57830a79b488 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Tue May 8 22:48:00 2018 +0200 patch 8.0.1806: InsertCharPre causes problems for autocomplete Problem: InsertCharPre causes problems for autocomplete. (Lifepillar) Solution: Check for InsertCharPre before calling vpeekc(). (Christian Brabandt, closes #2876)
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1 *mbyte.txt* For Vim version 8.0. Last change: 2018 Jan 21
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar et al.
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7 Multi-byte support *multibyte* *multi-byte*
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8 *Chinese* *Japanese* *Korean*
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9 This is about editing text in languages which have many characters that can
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10 not be represented using one byte (one octet). Examples are Chinese, Japanese
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11 and Korean. Unicode is also covered here.
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13 For an introduction to the most common features, see |usr_45.txt| in the user
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15 For changing the language of messages and menus see |mlang.txt|.
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17 {not available when compiled without the |+multi_byte| feature}
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20 1. Getting started |mbyte-first|
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21 2. Locale |mbyte-locale|
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22 3. Encoding |mbyte-encoding|
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23 4. Using a terminal |mbyte-terminal|
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24 5. Fonts on X11 |mbyte-fonts-X11|
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25 6. Fonts on MS-Windows |mbyte-fonts-MSwin|
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26 7. Input on X11 |mbyte-XIM|
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27 8. Input on MS-Windows |mbyte-IME|
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28 9. Input with a keymap |mbyte-keymap|
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29 10. Input with imactivatefunc() |mbyte-func|
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30 11. Using UTF-8 |mbyte-utf8|
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31 12. Overview of options |mbyte-options|
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33 NOTE: This file contains UTF-8 characters. These may show up as strange
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34 characters or boxes when using another encoding.
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36 ==============================================================================
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37 1. Getting started *mbyte-first*
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39 This is a summary of the multibyte features in Vim. If you are lucky it works
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40 as described and you can start using Vim without much trouble. If something
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41 doesn't work you will have to read the rest. Don't be surprised if it takes
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42 quite a bit of work and experimenting to make Vim use all the multi-byte
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43 features. Unfortunately, every system has its own way to deal with multibyte
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54 INSTALL files in the source directory.
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57 LOCALE
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59 First of all, you must make sure your current locale is set correctly. If
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61 away. If not, you can often make it work by setting the $LANG environment
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79 See |mbyte-locale| for details.
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82 ENCODING
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89 See |encoding-values| for a list of acceptable values.
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91 The result is that all the text that is used inside Vim will be in this
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107 For the GUI you must select fonts that work with the current 'encoding'. This
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112 For GTK+ 2, you can skip most of this section. The option 'guifontset' does
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114 work". If your system comes with Xft2 and fontconfig and the current font
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117 not need to set it. It is only necessary if the automatic font selection does
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120 For X11 you can set the 'guifontset' option to a list of fonts that together
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140 - For X11 XIM can be used. See |XIM|.
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147 ==============================================================================
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148 2. Locale *mbyte-locale*
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150 The easiest setup is when your whole system uses the locale you want to work
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155 WHAT IS A LOCALE? *locale*
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158 and environments at least as much as the number of languages. A linguistic
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159 environment corresponding to an area is called "locale". This includes
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160 information about the used language, the charset, collating order for sorting,
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161 date format, currency format and so on. For Vim only the language and charset
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164 You can only use a locale if your system has support for it. Some systems
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165 have only a few locales, especially in the USA. The language which you want
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166 to use may not be on your system. In that case you might be able to install
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167 it as an extra package. Check your system documentation for how to do that.
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173 Looking in these directories will show you the exact name of each locale.
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174 Mostly upper/lowercase matters, thus "ja_JP.EUC" and "ja_jp.euc" are
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176 from a short name like "nl" to the full name "nl_NL.ISO_8859-1".
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236 ==============================================================================
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242 variables.
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244 *charset* *codeset*
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251 Some of these are control characters, thus even fewer can be used for text.
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259 matter what language is used. Thus you might see the right text even when the
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263 Vim can use many different character encodings. There are three major groups:
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267 characters occupy one screen cell only.
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274 u Unicode Universal encoding, can replace all others. ISO 10646.
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276 relation between bytes and screen cells is complex.
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278 Other encodings cannot be used by Vim internally. But files in other
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279 encodings can be edited by using conversion, see 'fileencoding'.
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280 Note that all encodings must use ASCII for the characters up to 128 (except
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284 1 latin1 8-bit characters (ISO 8859-1, also used for cp1252)
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286 1 koi8-r Russian
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287 1 koi8-u Ukrainian
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288 1 macroman MacRoman (Macintosh encoding)
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289 1 8bit-{name} any 8-bit encoding (Vim specific name)
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291 1 cp737 similar to iso-8859-7
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292 1 cp775 Baltic
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293 1 cp850 similar to iso-8859-4
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294 1 cp852 similar to iso-8859-1
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295 1 cp855 similar to iso-8859-2
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296 1 cp857 similar to iso-8859-5
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297 1 cp860 similar to iso-8859-9
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298 1 cp861 similar to iso-8859-1
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299 1 cp862 similar to iso-8859-1
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300 1 cp863 similar to iso-8859-8
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301 1 cp865 similar to iso-8859-1
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302 1 cp866 similar to iso-8859-5
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303 1 cp869 similar to iso-8859-7
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304 1 cp874 Thai
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319 2 cp936 simplified Chinese (Windows only)
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323 2 euc-tw traditional Chinese (Unix only)
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324 2 2byte-{name} Unix: any double-byte encoding (Vim specific name)
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325 2 cp{number} MS-Windows: any installed double-byte codepage
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326 u utf-8 32 bit UTF-8 encoded Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646-1)
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327 u ucs-2 16 bit UCS-2 encoded Unicode (ISO/IEC 10646-1)
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328 u ucs-2le like ucs-2, little endian
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329 u utf-16 ucs-2 extended with double-words for more characters
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336 For MS-Windows "cp{number}" means using codepage {number}.
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365 you can. The default is to use big-endian (most significant byte comes
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366 first):
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367 name bytes char ~
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368 ucs-2 11 22 1122
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369 ucs-2le 22 11 1122
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370 ucs-4 11 22 33 44 11223344
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371 ucs-4le 44 33 22 11 11223344
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373 On MS-Windows systems you often want to use "ucs-2le", because it uses little
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374 endian UCS-2.
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378 done when needed. You might want to use the similar name to avoid conversion
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379 or when conversion is not possible:
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380
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381 cp932, shift-jis, sjis
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382 cp936, euc-cn
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383
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384 *encoding-table*
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385 Normally 'encoding' is equal to your current locale and 'termencoding' is
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386 empty. This means that your keyboard and display work with characters encoded
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387 in your current locale, and Vim uses the same characters internally.
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388
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389 You can make Vim use characters in a different encoding by setting the
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390 'encoding' option to a different value. Since the keyboard and display still
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391 use the current locale, conversion needs to be done. The 'termencoding' then
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392 takes over the value of the current locale, so Vim converts between 'encoding'
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393 and 'termencoding'. Example: >
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394 :let &termencoding = &encoding
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395 :set encoding=utf-8
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396
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397 However, not all combinations of values are possible. The table below tells
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398 you how each of the nine combinations works. This is further restricted by
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399 not all conversions being possible, iconv() being present, etc. Since this
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407 'encoding' typing and displaying may be wrong for some
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408 characters, Vim does NOT perform conversion (set
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409 'encoding' to "utf-8" to get this).
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410 8bit 2byte MS-Windows: works for all codepages installed on your
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411 system; you can only type 8bit characters;
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412 Other systems: does NOT work.
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416 show all characters that the 'guifont' supports.
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418 2byte 8bit Works, but typing non-ASCII characters might
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419 be a problem.
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420 2byte 2byte MS-Windows: works for all codepages installed on your
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421 system; typing characters might be a problem when
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422 locale is different from 'encoding'.
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423 Other systems: Only works when 'termencoding' is equal
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424 to 'encoding', you might as well leave it empty.
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425 2byte Unicode works, Vim will translate typed characters.
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427 Unicode 8bit works (unusual)
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428 Unicode 2byte does NOT work
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429 Unicode Unicode works very well (leaving 'termencoding' empty works
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430 the same way, because all Unicode is handled
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431 internally as UTF-8)
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435 Vim will automatically convert from one to another encoding in several places:
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436 - When reading a file and 'fileencoding' is different from 'encoding'
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437 - When writing a file and 'fileencoding' is different from 'encoding'
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438 - When displaying characters and 'termencoding' is different from 'encoding'
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439 - When reading input and 'termencoding' is different from 'encoding'
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440 - When displaying messages and the encoding used for LC_MESSAGES differs from
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441 'encoding' (requires a gettext version that supports this).
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442 - When reading a Vim script where |:scriptencoding| is different from
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443 'encoding'.
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444 - When reading or writing a |viminfo| file.
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445 Most of these require the |+iconv| feature. Conversion for reading and
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446 writing files may also be specified with the 'charconvert' option.
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447
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448 Useful utilities for converting the charset:
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449 All: iconv
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450 GNU iconv can convert most encodings. Unicode is used as the
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451 intermediate encoding, which allows conversion from and to all other
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452 encodings. See http://www.gnu.org/directory/libiconv.html.
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453
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454 Japanese: nkf
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455 Nkf is "Network Kanji code conversion Filter". One of the most unique
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456 facility of nkf is the guess of the input Kanji code. So, you don't
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457 need to know what the inputting file's |charset| is. When convert to
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458 EUC-JP from ISO-2022-JP or Shift_JIS, simply do the following command
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459 in Vim:
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460 :%!nkf -e
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461 Nkf can be found at:
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462 http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/~max/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/nkf-1.62.tar.gz
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464 Chinese: hc
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465 Hc is "Hanzi Converter". Hc convert a GB file to a Big5 file, or Big5
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466 file to GB file. Hc can be found at:
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467 ftp://ftp.cuhk.hk/pub/chinese/ifcss/software/unix/convert/hc-30.tar.gz
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469 Korean: hmconv
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470 Hmconv is Korean code conversion utility especially for E-mail. It can
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471 convert between EUC-KR and ISO-2022-KR. Hmconv can be found at:
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472 ftp://ftp.kaist.ac.kr/pub/hangul/code/hmconv/
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473
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474 Multilingual: lv
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475 Lv is a Powerful Multilingual File Viewer. And it can be worked as
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476 |charset| converter. Supported |charset|: ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-JP,
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477 ISO-2022-KR, EUC-CN, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, EUC-TW, UTF-7, UTF-8, ISO-8859
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478 series, Shift_JIS, Big5 and HZ. Lv can be found at:
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481
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482 *mbyte-conversion*
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483 When reading and writing files in an encoding different from 'encoding',
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484 conversion needs to be done. These conversions are supported:
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485 - All conversions between Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1), UTF-8, UCS-2 and UCS-4 are
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486 handled internally.
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487 - For MS-Windows, when 'encoding' is a Unicode encoding, conversion from and
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488 to any codepage should work.
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489 - Conversion specified with 'charconvert'
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490 - Conversion with the iconv library, if it is available.
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491 Old versions of GNU iconv() may cause the conversion to fail (they
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492 request a very large buffer, more than Vim is willing to provide).
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493 Try getting another iconv() implementation.
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494
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495 *iconv-dynamic*
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496 On MS-Windows Vim can be compiled with the |+iconv/dyn| feature. This means
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497 Vim will search for the "iconv.dll" and "libiconv.dll" libraries. When
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498 neither of them can be found Vim will still work but some conversions won't be
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499 possible.
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501 ==============================================================================
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502 4. Using a terminal *mbyte-terminal*
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503
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504 The GUI fully supports multi-byte characters. It is also possible in a
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505 terminal, if the terminal supports the same encoding that Vim uses. Thus this
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506 is less flexible.
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507
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508 For example, you can run Vim in a xterm with added multi-byte support and/or
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509 |XIM|. Examples are kterm (Kanji term) and hanterm (for Korean), Eterm
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510 (Enlightened terminal) and rxvt.
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511
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512 If your terminal does not support the right encoding, you can set the
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513 'termencoding' option. Vim will then convert the typed characters from
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514 'termencoding' to 'encoding'. And displayed text will be converted from
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515 'encoding' to 'termencoding'. If the encoding supported by the terminal
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517 characters. This may mess up the display. If you use a terminal that
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519 since nearly every character set can be converted to Unicode without loss of
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520 information.
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521
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522
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523 UTF-8 IN XFREE86 XTERM *UTF8-xterm*
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524
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525 This is a short explanation of how to use UTF-8 character encoding in the
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526 xterm that comes with XFree86 by Thomas Dickey (text by Markus Kuhn).
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527
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528 Get the latest xterm version which has now UTF-8 support:
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529
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530 http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html
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531
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532 Compile it with "./configure --enable-wide-chars ; make"
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533
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534 Also get the ISO 10646-1 version of various fonts, which is available on
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535
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536 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz
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537
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538 and install the font as described in the README file.
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539
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540 Now start xterm with >
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541
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542 xterm -u8 -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
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543 or, for bigger character: >
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544 xterm -u8 -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1
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546 and you will have a working UTF-8 terminal emulator. Try both >
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548 cat utf-8-demo.txt
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549 vim utf-8-demo.txt
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550
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551 with the demo text that comes with ucs-fonts.tar.gz in order to see
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552 whether there are any problems with UTF-8 in your xterm.
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553
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554 For Vim you may need to set 'encoding' to "utf-8".
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555
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556 ==============================================================================
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557 5. Fonts on X11 *mbyte-fonts-X11*
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558
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559 Unfortunately, using fonts in X11 is complicated. The name of a single-byte
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560 font is a long string. For multi-byte fonts we need several of these...
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561
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562 Note: Most of this is no longer relevant for GTK+ 2. Selecting a font via
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563 its XLFD is not supported; see 'guifont' for an example of how to
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564 set the font. Do yourself a favor and ignore the |XLFD| and |xfontset|
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565 sections below.
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566
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567 First of all, Vim only accepts fixed-width fonts for displaying text. You
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568 cannot use proportionally spaced fonts. This excludes many of the available
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569 (and nicer looking) fonts. However, for menus and tooltips any font can be
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570 used.
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571
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572 Note that Display and Input are independent. It is possible to see your
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573 language even though you have no input method for it.
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574
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575 You should get a default font for menus and tooltips that works, but it might
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576 be ugly. Read the following to find out how to select a better font.
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577
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578
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579 X LOGICAL FONT DESCRIPTION (XLFD)
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580 *XLFD*
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581 XLFD is the X font name and contains the information about the font size,
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582 charset, etc. The name is in this format:
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583
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584 FOUNDRY-FAMILY-WEIGHT-SLANT-WIDTH-STYLE-PIXEL-POINT-X-Y-SPACE-AVE-CR-CE
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585
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586 Each field means:
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587
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588 - FOUNDRY: FOUNDRY field. The company that created the font.
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589 - FAMILY: FAMILY_NAME field. Basic font family name. (helvetica, gothic,
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590 times, etc)
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591 - WEIGHT: WEIGHT_NAME field. How thick the letters are. (light, medium,
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592 bold, etc)
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593 - SLANT: SLANT field.
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594 r: Roman (no slant)
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595 i: Italic
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596 o: Oblique
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597 ri: Reverse Italic
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598 ro: Reverse Oblique
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599 ot: Other
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600 number: Scaled font
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601 - WIDTH: SETWIDTH_NAME field. Width of characters. (normal, condensed,
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602 narrow, double wide)
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603 - STYLE: ADD_STYLE_NAME field. Extra info to describe font. (Serif, Sans
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604 Serif, Informal, Decorated, etc)
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605 - PIXEL: PIXEL_SIZE field. Height, in pixels, of characters.
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606 - POINT: POINT_SIZE field. Ten times height of characters in points.
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607 - X: RESOLUTION_X field. X resolution (dots per inch).
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608 - Y: RESOLUTION_Y field. Y resolution (dots per inch).
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609 - SPACE: SPACING field.
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610 p: Proportional
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611 m: Monospaced
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612 c: CharCell
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613 - AVE: AVERAGE_WIDTH field. Ten times average width in pixels.
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614 - CR: CHARSET_REGISTRY field. The name of the charset group.
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615 - CE: CHARSET_ENCODING field. The rest of the charset name. For some
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616 charsets, such as JIS X 0208, if this field is 0, code points has
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617 the same value as GL, and GR if 1.
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618
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619 For example, in case of a 16 dots font corresponding to JIS X 0208, it is
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620 written like:
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621 -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-110-100-100-c-160-jisx0208.1990-0
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622
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623
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624 X FONTSET
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625 *fontset* *xfontset*
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626 A single-byte charset is typically associated with one font. For multi-byte
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627 charsets a combination of fonts is often used. This means that one group of
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628 characters are used from one font and another group from another font (which
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629 might be double wide). This collection of fonts is called a fontset.
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630
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631 Which fonts are required in a fontset depends on the current locale. X
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632 windows maintains a table of which groups of characters are required for a
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633 locale. You have to specify all the fonts that a locale requires in the
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634 'guifontset' option.
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635
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636 NOTE: The fontset always uses the current locale, even though 'encoding' may
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637 be set to use a different charset. In that situation you might want to use
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638 'guifont' and 'guifontwide' instead of 'guifontset'.
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639
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640 Example:
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641 |charset| language "groups of characters" ~
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642 GB2312 Chinese (simplified) ISO-8859-1 and GB 2312
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643 Big5 Chinese (traditional) ISO-8859-1 and Big5
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644 CNS-11643 Chinese (traditional) ISO-8859-1, CNS 11643-1 and CNS 11643-2
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645 EUC-JP Japanese JIS X 0201 and JIS X 0208
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646 EUC-KR Korean ISO-8859-1 and KS C 5601 (KS X 1001)
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647
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648 You can search for fonts using the xlsfonts command. For example, when you're
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649 searching for a font for KS C 5601: >
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650 xlsfonts | grep ksc5601
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651
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652 This is complicated and confusing. You might want to consult the X-Windows
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653 documentation if there is something you don't understand.
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654
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655 *base_font_name_list*
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656 When you have found the names of the fonts you want to use, you need to set
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657 the 'guifontset' option. You specify the list by concatenating the font names
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658 and putting a comma in between them.
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659
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660 For example, when you use the ja_JP.eucJP locale, this requires JIS X 0201
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661 and JIS X 0208. You could supply a list of fonts that explicitly specifies
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662 the charsets, like: >
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663
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664 :set guifontset=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-140-jisx0208.1983-0,
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665 \-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-jisx0201.1976-0
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666
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667 Alternatively, you can supply a base font name list that omits the charset
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668 name, letting X-Windows select font characters required for the locale. For
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669 example: >
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670
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671 :set guifontset=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-140,
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672 \-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70
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673
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674 Alternatively, you can supply a single base font name that allows X-Windows to
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675 select from all available fonts. For example: >
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676
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677 :set guifontset=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*
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678
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679 Alternatively, you can specify alias names. See the fonts.alias file in the
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680 fonts directory (e.g., /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/). For example: >
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681
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682 :set guifontset=k14,r14
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683 <
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684 *E253*
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685 Note that in East Asian fonts, the standard character cell is square. When
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686 mixing a Latin font and an East Asian font, the East Asian font width should
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687 be twice the Latin font width.
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688
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689 If 'guifontset' is not empty, the "font" argument of the |:highlight| command
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690 is also interpreted as a fontset. For example, you should use for
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691 highlighting: >
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692 :hi Comment font=english_font,your_font
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693 If you use a wrong "font" argument you will get an error message.
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694 Also make sure that you set 'guifontset' before setting fonts for highlight
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695 groups.
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696
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697
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698 USING RESOURCE FILES
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699
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700 Instead of specifying 'guifontset', you can set X11 resources and Vim will
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701 pick them up. This is only for people who know how X resource files work.
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702
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703 For Motif and Athena insert these three lines in your $HOME/.Xdefaults file:
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704
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705 Vim.font: |base_font_name_list|
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706 Vim*fontSet: |base_font_name_list|
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707 Vim*fontList: your_language_font
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708
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709 Note: Vim.font is for text area.
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710 Vim*fontSet is for menu.
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711 Vim*fontList is for menu (for Motif GUI)
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712
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713 For example, when you are using Japanese and a 14 dots font, >
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714
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715 Vim.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*
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716 Vim*fontSet: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*
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717 Vim*fontList: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*
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718 <
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719 or: >
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720
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721 Vim*font: k14,r14
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722 Vim*fontSet: k14,r14
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723 Vim*fontList: k14,r14
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724 <
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725 To have them take effect immediately you will have to do >
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726
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727 xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
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728
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729 Otherwise you will have to stop and restart the X server before the changes
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730 take effect.
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731
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732
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733 The GTK+ version of GUI Vim does not use .Xdefaults, use ~/.gtkrc instead.
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734 The default mostly works OK. But for the menus you might have to change
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735 it. Example: >
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736
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737 style "default"
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738 {
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739 fontset="-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-*-*"
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740 }
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741 widget_class "*" style "default"
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742
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743 ==============================================================================
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744 6. Fonts on MS-Windows *mbyte-fonts-MSwin*
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745
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746 The simplest is to use the font dialog to select fonts and try them out. You
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747 can find this at the "Edit/Select Font..." menu. Once you find a font name
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748 that works well you can use this command to see its name: >
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749
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750 :set guifont
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751
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752 Then add a command to your |gvimrc| file to set 'guifont': >
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753
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754 :set guifont=courier_new:h12
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755
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756 ==============================================================================
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757 7. Input on X11 *mbyte-XIM*
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758
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759 X INPUT METHOD (XIM) BACKGROUND *XIM* *xim* *x-input-method*
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760
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761 XIM is an international input module for X. There are two kinds of structures,
7
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762 Xlib unit type and |IM-server| (Input-Method server) type. |IM-server| type
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763 is suitable for complex input, such as CJK.
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764
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765 - IM-server
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766 *IM-server*
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767 In |IM-server| type input structures, the input event is handled by either
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768 of the two ways: FrontEnd system and BackEnd system. In the FrontEnd
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769 system, input events are snatched by the |IM-server| first, then |IM-server|
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770 give the application the result of input. On the other hand, the BackEnd
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771 system works reverse order. MS Windows adopt BackEnd system. In X, most of
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772 |IM-server|s adopt FrontEnd system. The demerit of BackEnd system is the
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773 large overhead in communication, but it provides safe synchronization with
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774 no restrictions on applications.
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775
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776 For example, there are xwnmo and kinput2 Japanese |IM-server|, both are
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777 FrontEnd system. Xwnmo is distributed with Wnn (see below), kinput2 can be
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778 found at: ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/x11/kinput2/
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779
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780 For Chinese, there's a great XIM server named "xcin", you can input both
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781 Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters. And it can accept other
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782 locale if you make a correct input table. Xcin can be found at:
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783 http://cle.linux.org.tw/xcin/
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784 Others are scim: http://scim.freedesktop.org/ and fcitx:
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785 http://www.fcitx.org/
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786
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787 - Conversion Server
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788 *conversion-server*
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789 Some system needs additional server: conversion server. Most of Japanese
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790 |IM-server|s need it, Kana-Kanji conversion server. For Chinese inputting,
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791 it depends on the method of inputting, in some methods, PinYin or ZhuYin to
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792 HanZi conversion server is needed. For Korean inputting, if you want to
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793 input Hanja, Hangul-Hanja conversion server is needed.
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794
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795 For example, the Japanese inputting process is divided into 2 steps. First
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796 we pre-input Hira-gana, second Kana-Kanji conversion. There are so many
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797 Kanji characters (6349 Kanji characters are defined in JIS X 0208) and the
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798 number of Hira-gana characters are 76. So, first, we pre-input text as
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799 pronounced in Hira-gana, second, we convert Hira-gana to Kanji or Kata-Kana,
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800 if needed. There are some Kana-Kanji conversion server: jserver
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801 (distributed with Wnn, see below) and canna. Canna can be found at:
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802 http://canna.sourceforge.jp/
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803
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804 There is a good input system: Wnn4.2. Wnn 4.2 contains,
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805 xwnmo (|IM-server|)
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806 jserver (Japanese Kana-Kanji conversion server)
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807 cserver (Chinese PinYin or ZhuYin to simplified HanZi conversion server)
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808 tserver (Chinese PinYin or ZhuYin to traditional HanZi conversion server)
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809 kserver (Hangul-Hanja conversion server)
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810 Wnn 4.2 for several systems can be found at various places on the internet.
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811 Use the RPM or port for your system.
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812
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813
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814 - Input Style
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815 *xim-input-style*
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816 When inputting CJK, there are four areas:
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817 1. The area to display of the input while it is being composed
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818 2. The area to display the currently active input mode.
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819 3. The area to display the next candidate for the selection.
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820 4. The area to display other tools.
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821
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822 The third area is needed when converting. For example, in Japanese
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823 inputting, multiple Kanji characters could have the same pronunciation, so
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824 a sequence of Hira-gana characters could map to a distinct sequence of Kanji
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825 characters.
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826
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827 The first and second areas are defined in international input of X with the
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828 names of "Preedit Area", "Status Area" respectively. The third and fourth
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829 areas are not defined and are left to be managed by the |IM-server|. In the
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830 international input, four input styles have been defined using combinations
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831 of Preedit Area and Status Area: |OnTheSpot|, |OffTheSpot|, |OverTheSpot|
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832 and |Root|.
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833
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834 Currently, GUI Vim supports three styles, |OverTheSpot|, |OffTheSpot| and
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835 |Root|.
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836 When compiled with |+GUI_GTK| feature, GUI Vim supports two styles,
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837 |OnTheSpot| and |OverTheSpot|. You can select the style with the 'imstyle'
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838 option.
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839
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840 *. on-the-spot *OnTheSpot*
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841 Preedit Area and Status Area are performed by the client application in
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842 the area of application. The client application is directed by the
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843 |IM-server| to display all pre-edit data at the location of text
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844 insertion. The client registers callbacks invoked by the input method
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845 during pre-editing.
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846 *. over-the-spot *OverTheSpot*
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847 Status Area is created in a fixed position within the area of application,
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848 in case of Vim, the position is the additional status line. Preedit Area
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849 is made at present input position of application. The input method
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850 displays pre-edit data in a window which it brings up directly over the
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851 text insertion position.
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852 *. off-the-spot *OffTheSpot*
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853 Preedit Area and Status Area are performed in the area of application, in
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854 case of Vim, the area is additional status line. The client application
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855 provides display windows for the pre-edit data to the input method which
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856 displays into them directly.
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857 *. root-window *Root*
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858 Preedit Area and Status Area are outside of the application. The input
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859 method displays all pre-edit data in a separate area of the screen in a
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860 window specific to the input method.
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861
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862
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863 USING XIM *multibyte-input* *E284* *E286* *E287* *E288*
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864 *E285* *E289*
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865
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866 Note that Display and Input are independent. It is possible to see your
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867 language even though you have no input method for it. But when your Display
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868 method doesn't match your Input method, the text will be displayed wrong.
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869
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870 Note: You can not use IM unless you specify 'guifontset'.
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871 Therefore, Latin users, you have to also use 'guifontset'
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872 if you use IM.
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873
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874 To input your language you should run the |IM-server| which supports your
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875 language and |conversion-server| if needed.
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876
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877 The next 3 lines should be put in your ~/.Xdefaults file. They are common for
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878 all X applications which uses |XIM|. If you already use |XIM|, you can skip
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879 this. >
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880
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881 *international: True
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882 *.inputMethod: your_input_server_name
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883 *.preeditType: your_input_style
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884 <
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885 input_server_name is your |IM-server| name (check your |IM-server|
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886 manual).
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887 your_input_style is one of |OverTheSpot|, |OffTheSpot|, |Root|. See
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888 also |xim-input-style|.
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889
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890 *international may not necessary if you use X11R6.
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891 *.inputMethod and *.preeditType are optional if you use X11R6.
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892
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893 For example, when you are using kinput2 as |IM-server|, >
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894
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895 *international: True
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896 *.inputMethod: kinput2
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897 *.preeditType: OverTheSpot
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898 <
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899 When using |OverTheSpot|, GUI Vim always connects to the IM Server even in
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900 Normal mode, so you can input your language with commands like "f" and "r".
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901 But when using one of the other two methods, GUI Vim connects to the IM Server
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902 only if it is not in Normal mode.
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903
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904 If your IM Server does not support |OverTheSpot|, and if you want to use your
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905 language with some Normal mode command like "f" or "r", then you should use a
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906 localized xterm or an xterm which supports |XIM|
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907
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908 If needed, you can set the XMODIFIERS environment variable:
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909
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910 sh: export XMODIFIERS="@im=input_server_name"
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911 csh: setenv XMODIFIERS "@im=input_server_name"
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912
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913 For example, when you are using kinput2 as |IM-server| and sh, >
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914
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915 export XMODIFIERS="@im=kinput2"
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916 <
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917
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918 FULLY CONTROLLED XIM
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919
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920 You can fully control XIM, like with IME of MS-Windows (see |multibyte-ime|).
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921 This is currently only available for the GTK GUI.
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922
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923 Before using fully controlled XIM, one setting is required. Set the
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924 'imactivatekey' option to the key that is used for the activation of the input
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925 method. For example, when you are using kinput2 + canna as IM Server, the
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926 activation key is probably Shift+Space: >
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927
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928 :set imactivatekey=S-space
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929
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930 See 'imactivatekey' for the format.
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931
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932 ==============================================================================
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933 8. Input on MS-Windows *mbyte-IME*
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934
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935 (Windows IME support) *multibyte-ime* *IME*
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936
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937 {only works Windows GUI and compiled with the |+multi_byte_ime| feature}
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938
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939 To input multibyte characters on Windows, you can use an Input Method Editor
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940 (IME). In process of your editing text, you must switch status (on/off) of
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941 IME many many many times. Because IME with status on is hooking all of your
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942 key inputs, you cannot input 'j', 'k', or almost all of keys to Vim directly.
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943
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944 This |+multi_byte_ime| feature help this. It reduce times of switch status of
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945 IME manually. In normal mode, there are almost no need working IME, even
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946 editing multibyte text. So exiting insert mode with ESC, Vim memorize last
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947 status of IME and force turn off IME. When re-enter insert mode, Vim revert
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948 IME status to that memorized automatically.
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949
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950 This works on not only insert-normal mode, but also search-command input and
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951 replace mode.
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952 The options 'iminsert', 'imsearch' and 'imcmdline' can be used to chose
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953 the different input methods or disable them temporarily.
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954
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955 WHAT IS IME
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956 IME is a part of East asian version Windows. That helps you to input
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957 multibyte character. English and other language version Windows does not
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958 have any IME. (Also there is no need usually.) But there is one that
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959 called Microsoft Global IME. Global IME is a part of Internet Explorer
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960 4.0 or above. You can get more information about Global IME, at below
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961 URL.
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962
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963 WHAT IS GLOBAL IME *global-ime*
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964 Global IME makes capability to input Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text
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965 into Vim buffer on any language version of Windows 98, Windows 95, and
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966 Windows NT 4.0.
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967 On Windows 2000 and XP it should work as well (without downloading). On
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968 Windows 2000 Professional, Global IME is built in, and the Input Locales
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969 can be added through Control Panel/Regional Options/Input Locales.
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970 Please see below URL for detail of Global IME. You can also find various
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971 language version of Global IME at same place.
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972
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973 - Global IME detailed information.
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974 http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?q=global+ime
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975
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976 - Active Input Method Manager (Global IME)
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dc2e5ec0500d Added the undofile() function. Updated runtime files.
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977 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa741221(v=VS.85).aspx
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979 Support for Global IME is an experimental feature.
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980
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981 NOTE: For IME to work you must make sure the input locales of your language
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982 are added to your system. The exact location of this depends on the version
1621
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983 of Windows you use. For example, on my Windows 2000 box:
7
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984 1. Control Panel
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985 2. Regional Options
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986 3. Input Locales Tab
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987 4. Add Installed input locales -> Chinese(PRC)
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988 The default is still English (United Stated)
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989
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990
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991 Cursor color when IME or XIM is on *CursorIM*
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992 There is a little cute feature for IME. Cursor can indicate status of IME
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993 by changing its color. Usually status of IME was indicated by little icon
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994 at a corner of desktop (or taskbar). It is not easy to verify status of
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995 IME. But this feature help this.
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996 This works in the same way when using XIM.
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997
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998 You can select cursor color when status is on by using highlight group
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999 CursorIM. For example, add these lines to your |gvimrc|: >
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1000
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1001 if has('multi_byte_ime')
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1002 highlight Cursor guifg=NONE guibg=Green
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1003 highlight CursorIM guifg=NONE guibg=Purple
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1004 endif
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1005 <
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1006 Cursor color with off IME is green. And purple cursor indicates that
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1007 status is on.
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1008
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1009 ==============================================================================
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1010 9. Input with a keymap *mbyte-keymap*
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1011
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1012 When the keyboard doesn't produce the characters you want to enter in your
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1013 text, you can use the 'keymap' option. This will translate one or more
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1014 (English) characters to another (non-English) character. This only happens
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1015 when typing text, not when typing Vim commands. This avoids having to switch
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1016 between two keyboard settings.
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9f7bcc2c3b97 commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/6f1d9a096bf22d50c727dca73abbfb8e3ff55176
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1017 {only available when compiled with the |+keymap| feature}
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1018
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1019 The value of the 'keymap' option specifies a keymap file to use. The name of
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1020 this file is one of these two:
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1021
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1022 keymap/{keymap}_{encoding}.vim
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1023 keymap/{keymap}.vim
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1024
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1025 Here {keymap} is the value of the 'keymap' option and {encoding} of the
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1026 'encoding' option. The file name with the {encoding} included is tried first.
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1027
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1028 'runtimepath' is used to find these files. To see an overview of all
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1029 available keymap files, use this: >
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1030 :echo globpath(&rtp, "keymap/*.vim")
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1031
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1032 In Insert and Command-line mode you can use CTRL-^ to toggle between using the
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1033 keyboard map or not. |i_CTRL-^| |c_CTRL-^|
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1034 This flag is remembered for Insert mode with the 'iminsert' option. When
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1035 leaving and entering Insert mode the previous value is used. The same value
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1036 is also used for commands that take a single character argument, like |f| and
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1037 |r|.
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1038 For Command-line mode the flag is NOT remembered. You are expected to type an
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1039 Ex command first, which is ASCII.
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1040 For typing search patterns the 'imsearch' option is used. It can be set to
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1041 use the same value as for 'iminsert'.
2033
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1042 *lCursor*
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1043 It is possible to give the GUI cursor another color when the language mappings
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1044 are being used. This is disabled by default, to avoid that the cursor becomes
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1045 invisible when you use a non-standard background color. Here is an example to
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1046 use a brightly colored cursor: >
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1047 :highlight Cursor guifg=NONE guibg=Green
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1048 :highlight lCursor guifg=NONE guibg=Cyan
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1049 <
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1050 *keymap-file-format* *:loadk* *:loadkeymap* *E105* *E791*
7
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1051 The keymap file looks something like this: >
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1052
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1053 " Maintainer: name <email@address>
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1054 " Last Changed: 2001 Jan 1
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1055
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1056 let b:keymap_name = "short"
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1057
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1058 loadkeymap
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1059 a A
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1060 b B comment
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1061
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1062 The lines starting with a " are comments and will be ignored. Blank lines are
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1063 also ignored. The lines with the mappings may have a comment after the useful
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1064 text.
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1065
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1066 The "b:keymap_name" can be set to a short name, which will be shown in the
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1067 status line. The idea is that this takes less room than the value of
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1068 'keymap', which might be long to distinguish between different languages,
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1069 keyboards and encodings.
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1070
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1071 The actual mappings are in the lines below "loadkeymap". In the example "a"
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1072 is mapped to "A" and "b" to "B". Thus the first item is mapped to the second
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1073 item. This is done for each line, until the end of the file.
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1074 These items are exactly the same as what can be used in a |:lnoremap| command,
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1075 using "<buffer>" to make the mappings local to the buffer.
7
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1076 You can check the result with this command: >
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1077 :lmap
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1078 The two items must be separated by white space. You cannot include white
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1079 space inside an item, use the special names "<Tab>" and "<Space>" instead.
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1080 The length of the two items together must not exceed 200 bytes.
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1081
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1082 It's possible to have more than one character in the first column. This works
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1083 like a dead key. Example: >
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1084 'a á
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1085 Since Vim doesn't know if the next character after a quote is really an "a",
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1086 it will wait for the next character. To be able to insert a single quote,
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1087 also add this line: >
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1088 '' '
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1089 Since the mapping is defined with |:lnoremap| the resulting quote will not be
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1090 used for the start of another character.
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1091 The "accents" keymap uses this. *keymap-accents*
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1092
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1093 The first column can also be in |<>| form:
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1094 <C-c> Ctrl-C
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1095 <A-c> Alt-c
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1096 <A-C> Alt-C
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1097 Note that the Alt mappings may not work, depending on your keyboard and
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1098 terminal.
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1099
7
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1100 Although it's possible to have more than one character in the second column,
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1101 this is unusual. But you can use various ways to specify the character: >
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1102 A a literal character
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1103 A <char-97> decimal value
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1104 A <char-0x61> hexadecimal value
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1105 A <char-0141> octal value
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1106 x <Space> special key name
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1107
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1108 The characters are assumed to be encoded for the current value of 'encoding'.
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1109 It's possible to use ":scriptencoding" when all characters are given
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1110 literally. That doesn't work when using the <char-> construct, because the
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1111 conversion is done on the keymap file, not on the resulting character.
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1112
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1113 The lines after "loadkeymap" are interpreted with 'cpoptions' set to "C".
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1114 This means that continuation lines are not used and a backslash has a special
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1115 meaning in the mappings. Examples: >
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1116
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1117 " a comment line
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1118 \" x maps " to x
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1119 \\ y maps \ to y
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1120
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1121 If you write a keymap file that will be useful for others, consider submitting
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1122 it to the Vim maintainer for inclusion in the distribution:
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1123 <maintainer@vim.org>
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1124
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1125
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1126 HEBREW KEYMAP *keymap-hebrew*
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1127
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1128 This file explains what characters are available in UTF-8 and CP1255 encodings,
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1129 and what the keymaps are to get those characters:
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1130
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1131 glyph encoding keymap ~
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1132 Char utf-8 cp1255 hebrew hebrewp name ~
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1133 א 0x5d0 0xe0 t a 'alef
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1134 ב 0x5d1 0xe1 c b bet
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1135 ג 0x5d2 0xe2 d g gimel
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1136 ד 0x5d3 0xe3 s d dalet
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1137 ה 0x5d4 0xe4 v h he
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1138 ו 0x5d5 0xe5 u v vav
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1139 ז 0x5d6 0xe6 z z zayin
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1140 ח 0x5d7 0xe7 j j het
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1141 ט 0x5d8 0xe8 y T tet
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1142 י 0x5d9 0xe9 h y yod
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1143 ך 0x5da 0xea l K kaf sofit
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1144 כ 0x5db 0xeb f k kaf
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1145 ל 0x5dc 0xec k l lamed
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1146 ם 0x5dd 0xed o M mem sofit
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1147 מ 0x5de 0xee n m mem
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1148 ן 0x5df 0xef i N nun sofit
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1149 נ 0x5e0 0xf0 b n nun
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1150 ס 0x5e1 0xf1 x s samech
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1151 ע 0x5e2 0xf2 g u `ayin
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1152 ף 0x5e3 0xf3 ; P pe sofit
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1153 פ 0x5e4 0xf4 p p pe
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1154 ץ 0x5e5 0xf5 . X tsadi sofit
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1155 צ 0x5e6 0xf6 m x tsadi
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1156 ק 0x5e7 0xf7 e q qof
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1157 ר 0x5e8 0xf8 r r resh
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1158 ש 0x5e9 0xf9 a w shin
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1159 ת 0x5ea 0xfa , t tav
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1160
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1161 Vowel marks and special punctuation:
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1162 הְ 0x5b0 0xc0 A: A: sheva
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1163 הֱ 0x5b1 0xc1 HE HE hataf segol
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1164 הֲ 0x5b2 0xc2 HA HA hataf patah
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1165 הֳ 0x5b3 0xc3 HO HO hataf qamats
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1166 הִ 0x5b4 0xc4 I I hiriq
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1167 הֵ 0x5b5 0xc5 AY AY tsere
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1168 הֶ 0x5b6 0xc6 E E segol
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1169 הַ 0x5b7 0xc7 AA AA patah
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1170 הָ 0x5b8 0xc8 AO AO qamats
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1171 הֹ 0x5b9 0xc9 O O holam
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1172 הֻ 0x5bb 0xcb U U qubuts
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1173 כּ 0x5bc 0xcc D D dagesh
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1174 הֽ 0x5bd 0xcd ]T ]T meteg
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1175 ה־ 0x5be 0xce ]Q ]Q maqaf
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1176 בֿ 0x5bf 0xcf ]R ]R rafe
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1177 ב׀ 0x5c0 0xd0 ]p ]p paseq
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1178 שׁ 0x5c1 0xd1 SR SR shin-dot
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1179 שׂ 0x5c2 0xd2 SL SL sin-dot
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1180 ׃ 0x5c3 0xd3 ]P ]P sof-pasuq
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1181 װ 0x5f0 0xd4 VV VV double-vav
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1182 ױ 0x5f1 0xd5 VY VY vav-yod
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1183 ײ 0x5f2 0xd6 YY YY yod-yod
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1184
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1185 The following are only available in utf-8
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1186
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1187 Cantillation marks:
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1188 glyph
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1189 Char utf-8 hebrew name
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1190 ב֑ 0x591 C: etnahta
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1191 ב֒ 0x592 Cs segol
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1192 ב֓ 0x593 CS shalshelet
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1193 ב֔ 0x594 Cz zaqef qatan
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1194 ב֕ 0x595 CZ zaqef gadol
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1195 ב֖ 0x596 Ct tipeha
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1196 ב֗ 0x597 Cr revia
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1197 ב֘ 0x598 Cq zarqa
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1198 ב֙ 0x599 Cp pashta
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1199 ב֚ 0x59a C! yetiv
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1200 ב֛ 0x59b Cv tevir
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1201 ב֜ 0x59c Cg geresh
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1202 ב֝ 0x59d C* geresh qadim
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1203 ב֞ 0x59e CG gershayim
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1204 ב֟ 0x59f CP qarnei-parah
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1205 ב֪ 0x5aa Cy yerach-ben-yomo
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1206 ב֫ 0x5ab Co ole
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1207 ב֬ 0x5ac Ci iluy
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1208 ב֭ 0x5ad Cd dehi
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1209 ב֮ 0x5ae Cn zinor
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1210 ב֯ 0x5af CC masora circle
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1211
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1212 Combining forms:
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1213 ﬠ 0xfb20 X` Alternative `ayin
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1214 ﬡ 0xfb21 X' Alternative 'alef
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1215 ﬢ 0xfb22 X-d Alternative dalet
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1216 ﬣ 0xfb23 X-h Alternative he
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1217 ﬤ 0xfb24 X-k Alternative kaf
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1218 ﬥ 0xfb25 X-l Alternative lamed
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1219 ﬦ 0xfb26 X-m Alternative mem-sofit
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1220 ﬧ 0xfb27 X-r Alternative resh
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1221 ﬨ 0xfb28 X-t Alternative tav
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1222 ﬩ 0xfb29 X-+ Alternative plus
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1223 שׁ 0xfb2a XW shin+shin-dot
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1224 שׂ 0xfb2b Xw shin+sin-dot
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1225 שּׁ 0xfb2c X..W shin+shin-dot+dagesh
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1226 שּׂ 0xfb2d X..w shin+sin-dot+dagesh
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1227 אַ 0xfb2e XA alef+patah
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1228 אָ 0xfb2f XO alef+qamats
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1229 אּ 0xfb30 XI alef+hiriq (mapiq)
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1230 בּ 0xfb31 X.b bet+dagesh
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1231 גּ 0xfb32 X.g gimel+dagesh
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1232 דּ 0xfb33 X.d dalet+dagesh
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1233 הּ 0xfb34 X.h he+dagesh
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1234 וּ 0xfb35 Xu vav+dagesh
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1235 זּ 0xfb36 X.z zayin+dagesh
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1236 טּ 0xfb38 X.T tet+dagesh
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1237 יּ 0xfb39 X.y yud+dagesh
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1238 ךּ 0xfb3a X.K kaf sofit+dagesh
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1239 כּ 0xfb3b X.k kaf+dagesh
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1240 לּ 0xfb3c X.l lamed+dagesh
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1241 מּ 0xfb3e X.m mem+dagesh
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1242 נּ 0xfb40 X.n nun+dagesh
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1243 סּ 0xfb41 X.s samech+dagesh
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1244 ףּ 0xfb43 X.P pe sofit+dagesh
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1245 פּ 0xfb44 X.p pe+dagesh
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1246 צּ 0xfb46 X.x tsadi+dagesh
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1247 קּ 0xfb47 X.q qof+dagesh
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1248 רּ 0xfb48 X.r resh+dagesh
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1249 שּ 0xfb49 X.w shin+dagesh
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1250 תּ 0xfb4a X.t tav+dagesh
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1251 וֹ 0xfb4b Xo vav+holam
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1252 בֿ 0xfb4c XRb bet+rafe
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1253 כֿ 0xfb4d XRk kaf+rafe
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1254 פֿ 0xfb4e XRp pe+rafe
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1255 ﭏ 0xfb4f Xal alef-lamed
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1256
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1257 ==============================================================================
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1258 10. Input with imactivatefunc() *mbyte-func*
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1259
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1260 Vim has the 'imactivatefunc' and 'imstatusfunc' options. These are useful to
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1261 activate/deactivate the input method from Vim in any way, also with an external
12920
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1262 command. For example, fcitx provide fcitx-remote command: >
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1263
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
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1264 set iminsert=2
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1265 set imsearch=2
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1266 set imcmdline
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1267
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1268 set imactivatefunc=ImActivate
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1269 function! ImActivate(active)
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1270 if a:active
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1271 call system('fcitx-remote -o')
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1272 else
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1273 call system('fcitx-remote -c')
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1274 endif
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1275 endfunction
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1276
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1277 set imstatusfunc=ImStatus
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1278 function! ImStatus()
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1279 return system('fcitx-remote')[0] is# '2'
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1280 endfunction
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1281
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1282 Using this script, you can activate/deactivate XIM via Vim even when it is not
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1283 compiled with |+xim|.
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1284
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1285 ==============================================================================
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
parents: 12293
diff changeset
1286 11. Using UTF-8 *mbyte-utf8* *UTF-8* *utf-8* *utf8*
7
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1287 *Unicode* *unicode*
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1288 The Unicode character set was designed to include all characters from other
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1289 character sets. Therefore it is possible to write text in any language using
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1290 Unicode (with a few rarely used languages excluded). And it's mostly possible
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1291 to mix these languages in one file, which is impossible with other encodings.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1292
2033
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Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
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1293 Unicode can be encoded in several ways. The most popular one is UTF-8, which
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
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1294 uses one or more bytes for each character and is backwards compatible with
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1295 ASCII. On MS-Windows UTF-16 is also used (previously UCS-2), which uses
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1296 16-bit words. Vim can support all of these encodings, but always uses UTF-8
7
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parents:
diff changeset
1297 internally.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1298
2033
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1299 Vim has comprehensive UTF-8 support. It works well in:
7
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1300 - xterm with utf-8 support enabled
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1301 - Athena, Motif and GTK GUI
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1302 - MS-Windows GUI
2033
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
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1303 - several other platforms
7
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parents:
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1304
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1305 Double-width characters are supported. This works best with 'guifontwide' or
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1306 'guifontset'. When using only 'guifont' the wide characters are drawn in the
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1307 normal width and a space to fill the gap. Note that the 'guifontset' option
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1308 is no longer relevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI.
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1309
2033
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1310 *bom-bytes*
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1311 When reading a file a BOM (Byte Order Mark) can be used to recognize the
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1312 Unicode encoding:
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1313 EF BB BF utf-8
2290
22529abcd646 Fixed ":s" message. Docs updates.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@vim.org>
parents: 2236
diff changeset
1314 FE FF utf-16 big endian
22529abcd646 Fixed ":s" message. Docs updates.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@vim.org>
parents: 2236
diff changeset
1315 FF FE utf-16 little endian
2033
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1316 00 00 FE FF utf-32 big endian
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1317 FF FE 00 00 utf-32 little endian
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1318
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1319 Utf-8 is the recommended encoding. Note that it's difficult to tell utf-16
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1320 and utf-32 apart. Utf-16 is often used on MS-Windows, utf-32 is not
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1321 widespread as file format.
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1322
de5a43c5eedc Update documentation files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@zimbu.org>
parents: 1702
diff changeset
1323
714
0f9f4761ad9c updated for version 7.0216
vimboss
parents: 557
diff changeset
1324 *mbyte-combining* *mbyte-composing*
0f9f4761ad9c updated for version 7.0216
vimboss
parents: 557
diff changeset
1325 A composing or combining character is used to change the meaning of the
0f9f4761ad9c updated for version 7.0216
vimboss
parents: 557
diff changeset
1326 character before it. The combining characters are drawn on top of the
856
8cd729851562 updated for version 7.0g
vimboss
parents: 842
diff changeset
1327 preceding character.
714
0f9f4761ad9c updated for version 7.0216
vimboss
parents: 557
diff changeset
1328 Up to two combining characters can be used by default. This can be changed
0f9f4761ad9c updated for version 7.0216
vimboss
parents: 557
diff changeset
1329 with the 'maxcombine' option.
0f9f4761ad9c updated for version 7.0216
vimboss
parents: 557
diff changeset
1330 When editing text a composing character is mostly considered part of the
0f9f4761ad9c updated for version 7.0216
vimboss
parents: 557
diff changeset
1331 preceding character. For example "x" will delete a character and its
0f9f4761ad9c updated for version 7.0216
vimboss
parents: 557
diff changeset
1332 following composing characters by default.
0f9f4761ad9c updated for version 7.0216
vimboss
parents: 557
diff changeset
1333 If the 'delcombine' option is on, then pressing 'x' will delete the combining
7
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1334 characters, one at a time, then the base character. But when inserting, you
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1335 type the first character and the following composing characters separately,
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1336 after which they will be joined. The "r" command will not allow you to type a
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1337 combining character, because it doesn't know one is coming. Use "R" instead.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1338
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1339 Bytes which are not part of a valid UTF-8 byte sequence are handled like a
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1340 single character and displayed as <xx>, where "xx" is the hex value of the
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1341 byte.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1342
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1343 Overlong sequences are not handled specially and displayed like a valid
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1344 character. However, search patterns may not match on an overlong sequence.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1345 (an overlong sequence is where more bytes are used than required for the
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1346 character.) An exception is NUL (zero) which is displayed as "<00>".
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1347
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1348 In the file and buffer the full range of Unicode characters can be used (31
2965
f2de38a019a2 Updated runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@vim.org>
parents: 2698
diff changeset
1349 bits). However, displaying only works for the characters present in the
f2de38a019a2 Updated runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar <bram@vim.org>
parents: 2698
diff changeset
1350 selected font.
7
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1351
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1352 Useful commands:
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1353 - "ga" shows the decimal, hexadecimal and octal value of the character under
236
4707450c2b33 updated for version 7.0066
vimboss
parents: 167
diff changeset
1354 the cursor. If there are composing characters these are shown too. (If the
7
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1355 message is truncated, use ":messages").
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1356 - "g8" shows the bytes used in a UTF-8 character, also the composing
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1357 characters, as hex numbers.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1358 - ":set encoding=utf-8 fileencodings=" forces using UTF-8 for all files. The
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1359 default is to use the current locale for 'encoding' and set 'fileencodings'
1621
82b5078be2dd updated for version 7.2a
vimboss
parents: 1257
diff changeset
1360 to automatically detect the encoding of a file.
7
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1361
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1362
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1363 STARTING VIM
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1364
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1365 If your current locale is in an utf-8 encoding, Vim will automatically start
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1366 in utf-8 mode.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1367
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1368 If you are using another locale: >
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1369
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1370 set encoding=utf-8
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1371
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1372 You might also want to select the font used for the menus. Unfortunately this
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1373 doesn't always work. See the system specific remarks below, and 'langmenu'.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1374
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1375
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1376 USING UTF-8 IN X-Windows *utf-8-in-xwindows*
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1377
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1378 Note: This section does not apply to the GTK+ 2 GUI.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1379
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1380 You need to specify a font to be used. For double-wide characters another
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1381 font is required, which is exactly twice as wide. There are three ways to do
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1382 this:
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1383
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1384 1. Set 'guifont' and let Vim find a matching 'guifontwide'
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1385 2. Set 'guifont' and 'guifontwide'
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1386 3. Set 'guifontset'
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1387
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1388 See the documentation for each option for details. Example: >
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1389
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1390 :set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1391
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1392 You might also want to set the font used for the menus. This only works for
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1393 Motif. Use the ":hi Menu font={fontname}" command for this. |:highlight|
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1394
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1395
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1396 TYPING UTF-8 *utf-8-typing*
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1397
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1398 If you are using X-Windows, you should find an input method that supports
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1399 utf-8.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1400
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1401 If your system does not provide support for typing utf-8, you can use the
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1402 'keymap' feature. This allows writing a keymap file, which defines a utf-8
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1403 character as a sequence of ASCII characters. See |mbyte-keymap|.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1404
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1405 Another method is to set the current locale to the language you want to use
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1406 and for which you have a XIM available. Then set 'termencoding' to that
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1407 language and Vim will convert the typed characters to 'encoding' for you.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1408
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1409 If everything else fails, you can type any character as four hex bytes: >
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1410
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1411 CTRL-V u 1234
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1412
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1413 "1234" is interpreted as a hex number. You must type four characters, prepend
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1414 a zero if necessary.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1415
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1416
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1417 COMMAND ARGUMENTS *utf-8-char-arg*
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1418
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parents:
diff changeset
1419 Commands like |f|, |F|, |t| and |r| take an argument of one character. For
167
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parents: 39
diff changeset
1420 UTF-8 this argument may include one or two composing characters. These need
7
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1421 to be produced together with the base character, Vim doesn't wait for the next
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1422 character to be typed to find out if it is a composing character or not.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1423 Using 'keymap' or |:lmap| is a nice way to type these characters.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1424
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1425 The commands that search for a character in a line handle composing characters
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1426 as follows. When searching for a character without a composing character,
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1427 this will find matches in the text with or without composing characters. When
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1428 searching for a character with a composing character, this will only find
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1429 matches with that composing character. It was implemented this way, because
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1430 not everybody is able to type a composing character.
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1431
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vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1432
3fc0f57ecb91 updated for version 7.0001
vimboss
parents:
diff changeset
1433 ==============================================================================
12920
327e1264b9bf patch 8.0.1336: cannot use imactivatefunc() unless compiled with +xim
Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
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1436 These options are relevant for editing multi-byte files. Check the help in
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1437 options.txt for detailed information.
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1439 'encoding' Encoding used for the keyboard and display. It is also the
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1440 default encoding for files.
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1441
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1442 'fileencoding' Encoding of a file. When it's different from 'encoding'
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1443 conversion is done when reading or writing the file.
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1444
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1445 'fileencodings' List of possible encodings of a file. When opening a file
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1446 these will be tried and the first one that doesn't cause an
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1447 error is used for 'fileencoding'.
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1448
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1449 'charconvert' Expression used to convert files from one encoding to another.
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1450
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1451 'formatoptions' The 'm' flag can be included to have formatting break a line
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1452 at a multibyte character of 256 or higher. Thus is useful for
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1453 languages where a sequence of characters can be broken
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1454 anywhere.
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1456 'guifontset' The list of font names used for a multi-byte encoding. When
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1457 this option is not empty, it replaces 'guifont'.
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1458
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1459 'keymap' Specify the name of a keyboard mapping.
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1461 ==============================================================================
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1463 Contributions specifically for the multi-byte features by:
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1464 Chi-Deok Hwang <hwang@mizi.co.kr>
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1465 SungHyun Nam <goweol@gmail.com>
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1466 K.Nagano <nagano@atese.advantest.co.jp>
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1467 Taro Muraoka <koron@tka.att.ne.jp>
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1468 Yasuhiro Matsumoto <mattn@mail.goo.ne.jp>
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1470 vim:tw=78:ts=8:ft=help:norl: