Re: magic diacritic markup?

[Trevor Baca]

On 7/26/05, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> wrote:

> No.  VIM is a modern editor, it supports compose character in case
> your operating system does not provide a multi key (I'm not sure if Os
> X supports compose) and save as utf-8.

Yes, you're right. The trick is

  set encoding=utf-8

then digraphs are possible when introduced by ctrl-k. So:

  ctrl-k a:  gives ü
  ctrl-k i:   gives ï
  ctrl-k Co gives the copyright symbol,
  etc

All fine under OS X with

  :digraphs

to list the available two-key codes.

Trevor.