Bug#236393: acknowledged by developer (Re: vim doesn't display high unicode characters)

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:19:23AM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> I agree with you that documentation doesn't automatically lend itself to
> classifying this a sa bug, but as the paragraph only makes sense with
> respect to gvim, and not with vim, I sitll think that I do have a point.
> 
> In any case, it is at least a wishlist item, as UTF-8 fully supports
> non-BMP characters and there is nor reason to artificially limit output
> characters to some subset of that supported by the terminal.

My preferred outcome of this bug will be a whishlist bug submitted
_upstream_ (i.e. not in the debian BTS). Bram is very responsive and I
think he can answer you on whether he intend to implement support for
high unicode character displaying or not.

If you insist in having it on the debian BTS it's fine for me, but at
minimum we should reopen it, change it severity to whishlist and forward
it to Bram.

Still, in order to keep a manageable BTS page for vim, I would rather
prefer not to keep there such border case report.

Thanks for your report,
Cheers.

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