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created 2003 · complexity basic · author maxiangjiang · version 7.0
You can generate a table of Unicode characters in Vim to see how they are displayed by your system. This may be of interest to anyone using CJK characters.
Example The following will add a table showing the characters from hex 9900 to 9fff, inclusive:
:call GenerateUnicode(0x9900, 0x9fff)
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How to
For this to work, you will need:
:set guifont=* "select a suitable font :set encoding=utf-8 "set a suitable encoding :set ambiwidth=double "for CJK characters (probably not needed)
Copy the following into a file, then type :so %
(source current file) to define the function. Enter :new
and type :call GenerateUnicode(0x9900,0x9fff)
(after setting the font and encoding).
function! GenerateUnicode(first, last) let i = a:first while i <= a:last if (i%256 == 0) $put ='----------------------------------------------------' $put =' 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F ' $put ='----------------------------------------------------' endif let c = printf('%04X ', i) for j in range(16) let c = c . nr2char(i) . ' ' let i += 1 endfor $put =c endwhile endfunction
See also
- Entering special characters
- List of Unicode characters (Wikipedia)
- Charts of Unicode characters (Unicode Consortium)