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Old 6th May 2011
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Default How to use gvim with greek letters?

First of all, I didn't know in which sub-forum to put this. Hope it's the right place...

For some days now, I'm trying to find info in how to enable greek typography in gvim*.

It seems now that I can write in Greek in browsers and LibreOffice after a small modification in xorg.conf under input method:

Code:
Option "XkbLayout" "us, gr"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"
and fixed the bug in the symbols with

Code:
cd /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/
sudo ln -s gr el
But now I'm somehow stuck. I know that OpenBSD since 4.8 accepts unicode, but from further reading I see that to display a single character, I have to do a certain key combination. For some letters, it's okay. For a big text, it's painful... Is there any way to just change language and start typing in gvim.

*The only reason that I say gvim and not vim, is that because as a gtk application, I suppose that it will be easier...

Can someone provide more info?
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and fixed the bug in the symbols with

Code:
cd /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/
sudo ln -s gr el
After creating these links and running the following, I can switch between Greek and English with Ctrl-Shift. Works fine in an xterm.

$ setxkbmap -layout us,gr -option grp:ctrl_shift_toggle

This command translates identically to the config snippet you posted.
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After creating these links and running the following, I can switch between Greek and English with Ctrl-Shift. Works fine in an xterm.

$ setxkbmap -layout us,gr -option grp:ctrl_shift_toggle
hm... it seems that I'm getting the same results as before. While I can write fine in English, in Greek I get an angry beep tone when I try to type a letter and I get no output...

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Here's a screenshot. The first line is proper English, the second is Greek.

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I think you need to map your Greek bindings to vim functions.

If you don't want that, in insert mode you could use this:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2469

also check this out
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldo...n.html#Russian


finally make sure you use UTF-8 encoding


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I think you need to map your Greek bindings to vim functions.

If you don't want that, in insert mode you could use this:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2469

also check this out
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldo...n.html#Russian


finally make sure you use UTF-8 encoding


I thank you so much... Problem solved with translit plugin and ":set encoding=utf-8".
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I think you need to map your Greek bindings to vim functions.

If you don't want that, in insert mode you could use this:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2469

also check this out
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldo...n.html#Russian
The problem with these methods is they only work within Vim, and not when you need to use foreign characters in other terminal applications.

The method I posted above works for me, and I don’t know why it wouldn’t work for you. Maybe you have LC_CTYPE set incorrectly—should be “en_US.UTF-8”.

Of course, you should be using “set encoding=utf-8” inside Vim. That is right.
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