On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, Paul wrote:
Hi Benjamin,
On Jul 4, 6:51 am, "Benjamin R. Haskell" wrote:
... snip
I originally wrote this¹ up (on the web since email's the wrong place
for HTML and images) in response to a post «Complex Scripts in
Vim/gVim»², but figured it was appropriate here, since Devanāgarī is
the topic again. The summary is that you're probably not going to be
happy with the way vim (g- or terminal) displays Devanāgarī at this
point in time, especially if you really have to read/write it
(instead of just viewing it as a sequence of characters for Unicode
testing).
So, this is a known issue. Thank you for these detailed answers.
I wonder how nano is working, though - because even if the script
isn't rendered properly, at least its cursor-character/rendering seems
to track properly, whereas in vim I do not feel confident editing any
lines containing Devanāgarī.
Is nano consistent for you under gnome-terminal? Did you try the sample
from the previous thread¹?
Neither it nor your pastebin sample² works for me in nano under
gnome-terminal. For your sample, I get the "three extraneous circle
things" (three combining characters that couldn't be rendered properly)
in both nano and vim: apparently Unicode code points U+093e (Devanagari
Vowel Sign AA), U+093f (Devanagari Vowel Sign I), and U+0940 (Devanagari
Vowel Sign II).
It might be useful to know what fonts you've got installed that are
covering these characters. A quick first pass:
fc-list :lang=hi | sort
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Best,
Ben
¹: http://benizi.com/vim/devanagari/snippet.txt
²: http://pastebin.com/DMvM7Fx9
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