I am using vim8 on windows 7. The problem is what whenever I try to paste a unicode character from somewhere else it doesn't work instead it shows. For example when I try to enter ⇛ It shows a question mark inside a square ?.
The output of of :version is
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled May 18 2018 18:36:07)
MS-Windows 32-bit GUI version with OLE support
Included patches: 1
Compiled by mool@tororo
Huge version with GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
+acl +comments +farsi +linebreak +packages +startuptime +user_commands
+arabic +conceal +file_in_path +lispindent +path_extra +statusline +vertsplit
+autocmd +cryptv +find_in_path +listcmds +perl/dyn -sun_workshop +virtualedit
+autoservername +cscope +float +localmap +persistent_undo +syntax +visual
+balloon_eval +cursorbind +folding +lua/dyn -postscript +tag_binary +visualextra
-balloon_eval_term +cursorshape -footer +menu +printer +tag_old_static +viminfo
+browse +dialog_con_gui +gettext/dyn +mksession +profile -tag_any_white +vreplace
++builtin_terms +diff -hangul_input +modify_fname +python/dyn +tcl/dyn -vtp
+byte_offset +digraphs +iconv/dyn +mouse +python3/dyn -termguicolors +wildignore
+channel +directx +insert_expand +mouseshape +quickfix +terminal +wildmenu
+cindent -dnd +job +multi_byte_ime/dyn +reltime -tgetent +windows
+clientserver -ebcdic +jumplist +multi_lang +rightleft -termresponse +writebackup
+clipboard +emacs_tags +keymap +mzscheme/dyn +ruby/dyn +textobjects -xfontset
+cmdline_compl +eval +lambda +netbeans_intg +scrollbind +timers -xim
+cmdline_hist +ex_extra +langmap +num64 +signs +title +xpm_w32
+cmdline_info +extra_search +libcall +ole +smartindent +toolbar -xterm_save
system vimrc file: "$VIM\vimrc"
user vimrc file: "$HOME\_vimrc"
2nd user vimrc file: "$HOME\vimfiles\vimrc"
3rd user vimrc file: "$VIM\_vimrc"
user exrc file: "$HOME\_exrc"
2nd user exrc file: "$VIM\_exrc"
system gvimrc file: "$VIM\gvimrc"
user gvimrc file: "$HOME\_gvimrc"
2nd user gvimrc file: "$HOME\vimfiles\gvimrc"
This is my minimal vimrc file
set fileencodings=utf-8
scriptencoding utf-8
if has("gui_running")
if has("gui_gtk2")
set guifont=Inconsolata\ 12
elseif has("gui_macvim")
set guifont=Menlo\ Regular:h14
elseif has("gui_win32")
set guifont=Consolas:h13
endif
endif
Note: Some the characters work fine. But majority doesn't.
gaover the characters that don’t render, and see if they correspond to the unicode table you’re using? It might just be that your font doesn’t support such characters – D. Ben Knoble♦ Dec 1 '19 at 15:038667, Hex 21db, Octal 20733for⇛– Maheer Ali Dec 1 '19 at 15:10DejaVu_Sans_Mono_for_Powerlineand while this font also does not show all glyphs (which BTW is impossible), it has a pretty good coverage of the multibyte characters that I use and encounter – Christian Brabandt Dec 2 '19 at 7:07