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Re: Vim 6.1 with Arabic patches installer for windows



On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 03:09:35PM -0500, Arafat Mohamed wrote:
> I'd like to thank arabeyes and especially Nadim and Anmar for providing 
> the Arabic patch and the installer respectively.
> 
> I do have one question though. I have a MS Word document with some 
> arabic text in it. When I try to copy and paste the text into VIM I get 
> question marks. I have encoding=utf-8, :set keymap=arabic, and :set 
> arabic. Is there something else I need to set to get this to work?
> 

Sounds like the text in the Word document is not utf8. Make sure what
you are trying to paste is in the correct encoding first (not sure how
that is done in Word).

later
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