On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:26 PM, John Little <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:55:34 PM UTC+13, Daniel M. Eldridge wrote:
>
> Please don't top-post.
>
> > Now, instead of ???? marks I get solid blocks--the size of a character.
>
> That means your font doesn't have the character.  Vim doesn't cast about
> looking for any font that has a glyph, like browsers will.  Try another
> font; click Edit on the menu bar, -> Select Font, or
>
> :set guifont=*
>
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/The_perfect_programming_font might be a place
> to start looking if you don't have a good one already.
>
> BTW, 7.3.46 is quite old now, ~2006.  You can get a much more recent vim
> for windows from  http://cream.sourceforge.net/download.html.
>
> Regards, John Little
>
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> Thank-you John.
I've found a number of fonts that have increased coverage--more characters,
but I'm confused about how to display more fonts in Edit | Select Font...

--Dan

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