How to view UTF-8 Characters in VIM or Gvim

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I work on webpages involving Non-English scripts from time to time  most of them uses utf-8 charset  VIM and Gvim does not display UTF-8 Characters correctly   Using VIM 7 3 46 on windows 7 64 bit  with set guifont Monaco h10 in  vimrc  Is there a way to fix this   Update  I ve googled around and found set guifontwide acts as second fallback for regional languages   I added the following lines in  vimrc and most of my problems got solved   set enc utf-8 set fileencoding utf-8 set fileencodings ucs-bom utf8 prc set guifont Monaco h11 set guifontwide NSimsun h12   The above NSimsun font works for Chinese  The problem is I don t know how they got the font name to work with VIM  Courier New is mentioned as Courier New also NSimsun is nowhere in the font directory  The font I want to use is Latha But  I don t know how to use it in  vimrc File  set guifontwide latha h12 or set guifontwide Latha h12 doesn t work   If I successfully set the guifontwide to latha  then my problem will be solved  How to do it

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this work for me and do not need change any config file vim --cmd  quot set encoding utf8 quot  --cmd  quot set fileencoding utf8 quot  fileToOpen

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Try to reload the document using    e    enc utf8   If that works you should maybe change the  fileencodings settings in your  vimrc

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On Microsoft Windows  gvim wouldn t allow you to select non-monospaced fonts  Unfortunately Latha is a non-monospaced font  There is a hack way to make it happen  Using FontForge  you can download Windows binary from http   www geocities jp meir000 fontforge   to edit the Latha ttf and mark it as a monospaced font  Doing like this   Load fontforge  select latha ttf  Menu  Element - gt  Font Info Select  quot OS 2 quot  from left-hand list on Font Info dialog Select  quot Panose quot  tab Set Proportion   Monospaced Save new TTF version of this font  try it out   Good luck

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In Linux  Open the VIM configuration file    sudo -H gedit  etc vim vimrc   Added following lines   set fileencodings utf-8 ucs-bom gb18030 gbk gb2312 cp936 set termencoding utf-8 set encoding utf-8   Save and exit  and terminal command     source  etc vim vimrc   At this time VIM will correctly display Chinese

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If Japanese people come here  please add the following lines to your    vimrc  set encoding utf-8 set fileencodings iso-2022-jp euc-jp sjis utf-8 set fileformats unix dos mac

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Is this problem solved meanwhile   I had the problem that gvim didn t display all unicode characters  but only a subset  including the umlauts and accented characters   while  set guifont  was empty  see my question   After reading here  setting the guifont to a sensible value fixed it for me   However  I don t need characters beyond 2 bytes

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On Windows gvim just select  Lucida Console  font

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Did you try   set encoding utf-8  set fileencoding utf-8

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I couldn t get any other fonts I installed to show up in my Windows GVim editor  so I just switched to Lucida Console which has at least somewhat better UTF-8 support   Add this to the end of your  vimrc     For making everything utf-8 set enc utf-8 set guifont Lucida Console h9 cANSI set guifontwide Lucida Console h12   Now I see at least some UTF-8 characters

[vim] How to view UTF-8 Characters in VIM or Gvim

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