Phil Carter wrote:
> Using ctrl+v U in insert mode, you can enter Unicode characters by
> code point. UTF-8 can only encode up to U+7FFFFFFF. Entering any code
> point up to that value works fine, but if if you type "ctrl+v U
> 81234567" for example, you get "<t_" followed by some other bytes
> instead of the requested code point.
>
> I don't know where to submit bug fixes but since this one is only two
> lines long, I'll post it here. In edit.c you can replace this line:
>
> if ((unicode == 'u' && i >= 4) || (unicode == 'U' && i >= 8))
>
> with this:
>
> if ((unicode == 'u' && i >= 4) ||
> (unicode == 'U' && (i == 7 && cc > 0x7FFFFFF || i >= 8)))
>
> This way vim stops reading input after 7 hex digits if an eighth digit
> would make the code point higher than what UTF-8 can encode.
I have been wondering if we should restrict the Unicode characters to
10FFFF. This is the official limit that was set a couple of years ago.
There won't be valid characters above this limit, so why allow inserting
them?
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