Hi all,

I decided to use VIM 7.0 as a text editor under Windows, mainly because it 
allows me to use only my keyboard to edit files.

My problem is that I always work with UTF-8 or Unicode (codepage 1200) files 
and I have problems reading characters in other languages. I tried searching 
around and found the :set guifontwide command, but it seems I can't use any of 
the fonts from a base Windows install, or I haven't quite figured out how.

If you can suggest the most complete Unicode font (the used languages, I don't 
care about math symbols, but definitely care about *all* used languages today). 
I seriously switch through all languages in a week's worth and definitely three 
character sets a day, I'd hate having to change fonts based on what I need to 
edit right then.

Or, if I can use Windows fonts, please let me know how.

For information, I have all languages support installed on my Windows XP 
system, and I can see the needed characters if I open the files in other 
editors (i.e. Notepad). I tested VIM with the UTF8 HTML page saved as text 
(http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html), and the default font "Fixedsys" 
doesn't display many of the characters correctly. I changed font around a bit 
and what I discovered is that the very few of the fonts I can choose have only 
a couple of languages supported (i.e. Western, Greek, Turkish, Central European 
and Cyrillic for Lucida Console). When I choose Lucida Console, the languages 
supported display fine, but not the others (i.e. Japanese, etc.)

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance,

Alex

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