> On Monday, April 30, 2018 at 9:58:54 AM UTC+2, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > Felipe Vieira wrote:
> > 
> > > I have tried the above solution and the following:
> > > 
> > > http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/arabic-font-td1161759.html
> > > 
> > > Still can't get Farsi to work. I get those "<200d>" characters.
> > > 
> > > I have tried gvim with
> > > 
> > >     :set guifont=Courier\ New\ 10
> > > 
> > > For instance.
> > > 
> > > Website for example:
> > > 
> > > http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/persian-alphabet.html
> > > 
> > > It displays nicely on my firefox.
> > 
> > The Farsi support in Vim is outdated.  It doesn't work with Unicode.
> > We are waiting for someone to re-implement it, or merge it with the
> > Arabic support.
> 
> I also wonder why there is no option to disable farsi or arabic on vim
> compile. The terminal I use supports bidi text, so in order to build
> the vim correctly for my terminal, I have to change config and
> features file in the source to disable farsi and arabic, which is
> inconvenient if I want to keep updating the vim.

What do you mean?  There are both options and features to enable/disable
Arabic and Farsi.  E.g. there is FEAT_ARABIC and the 'arabic' option.

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