Vim under Windows has a problem with some unicode characters

Question

i am using vim latest version (as my main text editor), however, the encoding for keyboard language, other than english, doesn't work.

in every other editor encoding is fine (notepad, ultraedit, notepad++, ...). these characters aren't displayed properly:

• č
• ć
• š
• đ
• ž

i think that is windows problem, even if every other editor works.

Answer 1

there are 2 aspects of this problem:

1. how are the bytes stored onto the disk ('encoding')
2. how are the bytes displayed on the screen

the first issue obviously influences the 2nd, but do not confuse the two.

if some characters are not displayed properly then most of the time there is not an 'encoding' problem but that the user picked a font which has no visual representation available for the bytes.

:echo &guifont 

tells you your current font. you could find out which fonts are used in the other, 'working' editors and then pick the same for vim.

Answer 2

I have had the same problem and the only way I could solved the problem is by creating windows batch file e.g. vim.bat and stored the following commands in it:

@echo off
chcp 1250 > nul:
"C:\Program Files\Vim\vim73\vim.exe"

Then double click on vim.bat to start a vim editor. You can also create shortcut to the vim.bat file.