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Editing files containing Devanagari script (or other Indian scripts) in vim doesn't work out of the box. I have not found a satisfactory solution for it yet and would like to hear if anybody else has.

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  • What problems are you facing? Does the text look wrong? Or are you having problems inputting characters? Or something else?
    – Martin Tournoij
    Aug 3, 2015 at 8:21
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    Check this one serverfault.com/questions/158473/languages-in-vim-editor
    – Alex Kroll
    Aug 3, 2015 at 14:46
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    @Carpetsmoker Yes, the text looks wrong, in different ways depending on which terminal emulator I try to run vim in. Somebody has made a nice overview of the different output he gets, benizi.com/vim/devanagari , which is not exactly the same for me, but you can get a rough idea about the varieties of output, none of which is correct. In fact, in contrast to the author of mentioned website, I get the best results in konsole.
    – muk.li
    Aug 3, 2015 at 15:48
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    @AlexKroll Yes, I know there are other ways to input devanagari in linux, that is not the problem. I can use gedit if I must, it does work for devanagari input, however I'd just like to stick with vim. Emacs seems to handle Devanagari without problem, I might learn it because of that, as I now have to regularly edit files containing pieces of text in devanagari script.
    – muk.li
    Aug 3, 2015 at 16:01
  • If you're using a terminal emulator (Konsole), then the problem is in the terminal emulator. All Vim does is ask the terminal emulator "Hey, I have these characters with such and such code points, please render them for me. kthxbye". gVim doesn't depend on a terminal emulator, but "under the hood" it's really a terminal emulator, I'm not surprised that a comparatively little used script doesn't work well (not all Latin fonts work well with gVim either)...
    – Martin Tournoij
    Aug 3, 2015 at 17:16

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