Re: OT: Question: Unicode

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:54:11AM +0200, taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> > 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.
Hey, I didn't say anything about Y and W; I said A. ;-)

LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH MACRON is U+0233, in the Latin Extended-B block.
That's decimal 563, so you can add a y- digraph by putting the command
"digraph y- 563" in your .vimrc.

There do seem to be some surprising gaps in the built-in digraphs;
for instance, there are sequences for ń, ņ, ň, and ʼn, but not ñ!

W+macron does not seem to exist as a precomposed character, and the vim
digraphs only do single characters.  To get a w with a macron you'll have
to use a w followed by a combining macron: w̄.  You can't make a digraph
for that, but you can map a key sequence to it in a keymap.


> Hmm typing æøå (ash, oslash, aring) in vim on mlterm is strangely painful...
What's mlterm?   In vim without a custom keymap, that's ^Kae^Ko/^Kaa.

> Do you use gvim or run it in a terminal?
On Linux, I run it in an xterm.  On Windows, I use gvim, because it will
automatically switch the encoding used for display to match the :encoding
setting; DOS windows are Windows-1252 only.

> I'll need that, the macroned vowels are very frequent... too bad there's
> no generic XIM-maker.
Yeah, that would be nice.  Having to fire up vim to cut and paste into
J. Random X11 application is not much of an improvement over the Windows
Character Map accessory.

-Mark