Dialog font of Vim in different "encoding" setting

[weasley_wx]

hi all.

 

the gvim72 for Windows set encoding to "cp936" defaultly, and in this case, the dialog font is pretty (Tahona),

but, the encoding of "cp936" isn't good for me, so i changed it to "utf-8", after set the lang of message to utf-8:

 

set encoding=utf-8

set helplang=cn

lang mes zh_CN.UTF-8

run delmenu.vim

set langmenu=zh_CN.UTF-8

run menu.vim

set termencoding=cp936

 

all is well, but the Vim's dialog changed to "sans", which is much ugly than "Tahona", i think i can't abide it...

 

there is a screenshot of two fonts.

 

any idea about this little bug? (just setting guifont and guifontwide, nothing better, and i don't know how to set guifontset...)

 

btw, the menu font and the font of Vim Window itself is prefect.

 

 

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weasley_wx

2008-11-20

[Tony Mechelynck]

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> weasley_wx
> 2008-11-20

I may be wrong, but I believe this is more of a Windows problem than a
Vim problem, especially since both text and menus in your Vim screen
(what the OS calls the "window" of the gvim.exe application) are exactly
the way you like them.

If I were still on Windows, and having this kind of problem, I might try
digging into the "country settings" (maybe looking for zh_CN.UTF-8,
zh_CN.ISO10646-1, or even zh_CN.UTF-16le because Unicode communication
between the Windows OS [XP or later] and Unicode-aware apps is always in
UTF-16le), or even searching the Windows registry for them, but in
either case with no guarantee of success.

Best regards,
Tony.
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[bill lam]

I seldom use window now. It seems there are font rendering problem related
to auto-hint or anti-alias. What if you just add
set encoding=utf-8
and leave other defaults unchanged.

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[StarWing]

sorry for seem that i can't understand you.... you mean it's a bug of
Vim?

then, there're any idea to solve it?

[bill lam]

Sorry I don't know. However I tended to agree with Tony that it is a
window problem rather than a vim problem.

You might try choosing another font or size for dialog box text in
your window theme. Anyway window doesn't wok and you don't know why
it doesn't work. ;-)

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[StarWing]

i have just tried change the font of Dialog, but nothing changed. and
i swap the window theme, nothing improve, neither.

i'm reading the source code of Vim, and try to find the answer -- i
think it's caused by multi-byte code support of Vim, because when Vim
find out there are multi-byte support of windows, it will try to use
Unicode APIs to buliding Vim's Windows. i think may be the SelectFont
of OnPaint in Vim's Dialog has some issues. -- because it is just a
same behavior when i didn't update HDC in windows.