Re: BAD BUG (Was: Updated Windows Vim binaries with Arabic support )

[Bram Moolenaar <Bram at moolenaar dot net>]

Antoine J. Mechelynck wrote:

> > The Vim patch for Arabic support by Nadim Shaikli has been
> > synchronized with Vim patch level 6.1.320. Also added is the help
> > document arabic.txt.
[...]
>
> I CAN'T USE THIS NEW VERSION!
> 
> Unlike the previous 6.1.300 patched binary, it does not recognise my Courier
> New Arabic glyphs with
>     :set guifont=Courier_New:h20:cDEFAULT
>     :set enc=utf-8
>     :set tenc=iso-8859-15
>     :set fencs=ucs-bom,iso-8859-15,latin1,utf-8
> 
> The utf-8 fileencoding (with BOM) is still recognised correctly.

Then what is the problem?

Perhaps it's related to the patch that adds ETO_PDY?

> Also, the new arabic.txt helpfile is present in the ...vim/vim61/doc
> directory, but its tags or its name are not recognised by the :help command.

That should be a matter of ":helptags $VIMRUNTIME/doc".

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