Re: OT: Question: Unicode

* Mark J. Reed said on 2003-05-19 23:13:53 +0200
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 10:44:09AM +0200, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> > Where did you get this file?
>
> You have Perl installed?  Look in $PERL5LIB/unicode (or /unicore, depending on
> version) for NamesList.txt.
>
> > I'm preparing vim for speedy typing of (among other things) utf8 ipa, and
> > had planned on mapping, say LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON to 'A-' or
> > similar.
>
> Note that in vim, you can already type a LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRON
> by typing control-K, A, -.
Doesn't seem to give me y+macron (which is neither in latin extended
a or b but in latin supplemental IIRC) or w+macron. At least :dig shows
more than the first 255 digraphs now.

Hmm typing æøå (ash, oslash, aring) in vim on mlterm is strangely painful...)
(æ*2=æ, ø*3=ø, å*2=å, weird and annoying. Or æøå+space to make them visible :()

Do you use gvim or run it in a terminal?

> If you :set digraph, then you can use A, backspace, -, but I backspace
> so often that gets in the way.
Ditto

> Creating a keymap so you don't need the control-K for commonly-needed
> characters is still a good idea,
I'll need that, the macroned vowels are very frequent... too bad there's
no generic XIM-maker.


t.

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