Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
I translated the menus for gvim and wanted to use them under windows,
but the non-latin characters simply don't show in the menu (other
characters are shown instead: squares š and ž and some other character
for č).
All other programs under Windows work fine, the encoding should also
be OK (If I rename the Russian file to menu_sl_si.utf-8.vim, I only
get question marks in menu, but I saw other cyrillic programs running
on the same computer without any problems as well).
I suspect that Vim might be asking Windows for Western European font
for the menu. I'm not sure about it, but in any case it's a bit weird.
Is there any remedy for it?
Any hints would be appreciated,
Mojca Miklavec
You must make sure that you have:
- an 'encoding' which includes the non-Latin characters you want to use
- (in console Vim) a terminal code page which includes them
- (in gvim) a 'guifont' which has the glyphs for them.
Check 'encoding' and 'guifont' by means of
:verbose set encoding? guifont?
"Renaming" the file to menu_sl_si.utf-8.vim (as with "rename" or "copy"
in a Dos shell, "mv" or "cp" in a Unix shell) probably won't be OK
because Vim will interpret the file data differently. You need to:
1. make sure that 'encoding' is set to utf-8. If it isn't, fist set
'termencoding' to the old value of 'encoding' (as it is immediately
after loading, before any script or command-line ex-command changes it)
then set 'encoding' to utf-8. You can do this in a script (e.g. in your
vimrc) by means of
if &termencoding == ""
let &termencoding = &encoding
endif
set encoding=utf-8
2. edit the file (under its "old" name) and check that it is displayed
correctly. You may need to use ++enc= in the :edit command to specify
the current 'fileencoding' for the file.
3. check that there is a line "scriptencoding utf-8" near the top of the
file, before the first non-Latin character
4. save the file with ":saveas ++enc=utf-8
~/.vim/lang/menu_sl_si.utf-8.vim" (on Unix) or ":saveas ++enc=utf-8
~/vimfiles/lang/menu_sl_si.utf-8.vim" (on Windows) (without hte quotes
in either case).
See
http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=246
:help ++opt
:help :scriptencoding
Best regards,
Tony.
