> For some reason I have issues with seeing Hebrew by default with vim on my new window 7 computer. all other application works fine with Hebrew.
> I installed vim73_46.
> I tried to see what causes the issue comparing the new computer with the old one (where all works fine) and found that there are 2 differences:
> 1. the default encoding on the old is cp1255 and on the new is latin1.
> 2. the font on both is Fixedsys but on the old when I go to choose font the Fixedsys has a 'Hebrew' in the script selection and on my new machine it is 'western'.

> how can I make the fixedsys support hebrew or be hebrew in the script selection?
> I installed on the windows font 'Fixedsys excelsior' but vim does not show it in the font selection. why?
> why is the encoding difference ?(vimrc is the same)

> thanks

On Friday, November 16, 2012 4:21:11 PM UTC+5:30, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On 16/11/12 10:17, yahalom wrote:

> > For some reason I have issues with seeing Hebrew by default with vim on my new window 7 computer. all other application works fine with Hebrew.

> > I installed vim73_46.

> > I tried to see what causes the issue comparing the new computer with the old one (where all works fine) and found that there are 2 differences:

> > 1. the default encoding on the old is cp1255 and on the new is latin1.

> > 2. the font on both is Fixedsys but on the old when I go to choose font the Fixedsys has a 'Hebrew' in the script selection and on my new machine it is 'western'.

> > how can I make the fixedsys support hebrew or be hebrew in the script selection?

> > I installed on the windows font 'Fixedsys excelsior' but vim does not show it in the font selection. why?

> > why is the encoding difference ?(vimrc is the same)

> > thanks

> The encoding difference means there is a difference in your system

> locale: on Windows it's in your "Country Preferences" (or something that

> sounds more or less like that).

> You can set the 'encoding' in your vimrc (preferably near the top of the

> file), I recommend UTF-8 which allows Vim to represent any possible

> 'fileencoding' in memory: the conversion is trivial (and any Vim

> compiled with +multi_byte can do it) for us-ascii, latin1, utf-8 (duh!)

> and any endianness of ucs-2, utf-16 and utf-32; for other charsets you

> need both a Vim version compiled with +iconv (on Windows, usually

> +iconv/dyn) and the "iconv" library (on Windows, iconv.dll or

> libiconv.dll) in some directory where Vim can find it. It is not

> distributed with Vim.

> You can set the font using the 'guifont' option. Vim can use only

> monotype fonts (fonts defined as having characters all of a single

> width). In my experience, the Courier_New font (which is maybe not very

> pretty, though IMHO prettier than Fixedsys) has a pretty good covering

> of encodings. When my "preferred" font hasn't got glyphs for the

> characters I want to see, that's the one I fall back onto.

> For details, see:

>    http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode

>    http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Setting_the_font_in_the_GUI

> Best regards,

> Tony.

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