Hugh Sasse wrote:
[...]
My problem is that I mainly work through Windows systems (often ssh into
Solaris, but still) and I don't have a clue what to do with fonts for all
this, E.g. in PuTTY. I'm not entirely clear how to do this in gvim for that
matter. I've read some of the help on UTF8 but I'm still rather confused
being very much at the Beginner stage for this in terms of the Dreyfus
model of skills aquistion
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/articles/cook_until_done.html
so if someone has a really gentle introduction to all this I'd be grateful.
I've noticed that Word stores things in UTF-16 (LOTS of nulls :-)) so
this should be achievable, but....
Best regards,
Tony.
Thank you,
Hugh
Some years ago, I wrote the chapter of the Vim FAQ about Unicode: browse to
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/vimfaq.html and scroll to the last
section, e.g. by searching the page for the string SECTION 37 (which happens
twice, once in the table of contents and once at the head of the section itself).
I just reread that section, which is a series of short explanations about the
things most important to use Unicode in Vim, with links to the appropriate
help topics and in a few cases to documentation elsewhere on the Web. Apart
from a few typos, it can still be regarded as accurate. (I didn't check the
external links though; if you find one that is broken, report it to Yegappan,
the maintainer of that FAQ.)
Best regards,
Tony.
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