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Re: Re: Arabic vim patch
- To: "Antoine J. Mechelynck" <antoine dot mechelynck at belgacom dot net>, Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: Re: Arabic vim patch
- From: digitect at mindspring dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 16:27:45 -0500 (GMT)
- Cc: developer at arabeyes dot org, bram at moolenaar dot net, vim at vim dot org
on 2/18/2003 3:35 PM Antoine J. Mechelynck said the following:
>
> I agree; but I suppose someone else than me will have to do it,
> since it involves a lot of compilations and I haven't got the
> software for it. Let's hope the vim developers soon find where the
> problem lies and how to solve it, ma`a sha'llah.
WHOOHOO!! I finally see Vim presenting Arabic on Windows!
http://cream.sourceforge.net/screenshot-arabic1.png
This with the 6.1.320 binary file we uploaded 2003-02-15. (Not the one
today, patch 303 apparently isn't a problem for me.)
My issues have been all font. Win95 has nothing utf-8 compatible, and
WinXP installs only Courier New as a utf-8 compatible font. Nothing
else (even my favorite, Andale Mono) works. I revised our tips here in
case anybody else wants to try this:
http://cream.sourceforge.net/vim.html#patches
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Steve Hall [ digitect at mindspring dot com ]