Re: OT: Unicode and vi(m). Was Re: Great SWT Program

On Sep 13, 7:30 am, RedGrittyBrick <redgrittybr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
digraph hu
digraph w:
^VUFC12

I guess this means that either

1) Vim is *not* one of the "Console-mode archaisms from the 70s".

or

2) "Console-mode archaisms from the 70s simply cannot and will not ever
decently support unicode" is wrong.

The key word here is "decently". These all look correct to me in
Google Groups. (I won't vouch for their not being mangled when GG
sends this followup though.) But you won't be able to see them
properly when editing in text-mode, unless you switch to a charset
with the right glyphs. Which means either you're hand-hacking stuff
like "^VUFC12" or the *English* text nearby is unreadable...

And I don't consider having to edit blind to be "decent" support for
whatever it is I'm having to edit blind.

For composing a post like the one I'm following up to, anything
limited to displaying one code page at a time is crippling. And
anything that isn't so limited is obviously not (whatever its
ancestry) what was originally under discussion.

.