From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 12:54 pm
> Steve Hall wrote:  
> > From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 11:58 am
> > >
> > > I often have to paste from Word for Windows into vim/gvim
> > > (cygwin). Some characters don't transfer properly.
> > 
> > It could just be a font issue, make sure your gvim font supports
> > non-ASCII characters. (I find Courier New or Andale Mono provide
> > extensive support.)
> 
> I checked this out. I'm using gvim, and neither of the fonts you
> mentioned are in the list available. I literally have thousands of
> fonts on my machine however, so how does it choose which font are
> available, and which are not? Is there a separate dir for them?

So if you do

  :set guifont=*

you don't get a dialog displaying a list similar to what you see when
you select a font in Notepad? I wonder if this is a build issue, where
did you get your Vim?

-- 
Steve Hall  [ digitect dancingpaper com ]

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