Re: vim doesn't display high unicode characters

Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@xxxxxxxx> wrote
> vim apperently doesn't display high unicode characters (i.e. characters
> > 65535). while it internally handles them correctly, it always outputs
> a coloured "?" (i.e. the same as when displaying a character not in the
> terminals encoding).

This is not a bug, but the documenter behaviour of vim. Quoting from
'help unicode':

  In the file and buffer the full range of Unicode characters can be
  used (31 bits).  However, displaying only works for 16 bit characters,
  and only for the characters present in the selected font.

I'm thus closing the bug (and #261164, submitted by you as well, merged
with #236393).

Cheers.

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