Re: VIM Arabic Patch Qn

[Arafat Mohamed <amohamed at lallygag dot net>]

Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Arafat Mohamed <amohamed lallygag net> wrote:
>
> > I downloaded the patch and installed fine. I can display arabic great. 
> > One question I have is how do I type in arabic? When I do that, I get 
> > latin characters.
>
>
> Salam.
>
> The answer to your question depends on,
>
>  1. If you are using vim-6.1.0 then the patch you used is most likely
>     a bit dated (ie. no help noted within -- I need to remedy this issue,
>     I know :-)  But you will need to do the following things within vim
>     after setting the "guifont",
>
>       :set encoding=utf-8
>       :set keymap=arabic
>       :set arabic

I get "Keymap not found". Also, I get a "sorry, no help for arabic" when 
 I do a :he arabic

Is it possible that I installed this incorrectly? I got the windows 
binaries from the cream project.

Thanks for the response,
Arafat Mohamed

> Salam.
>
>  - Nadim