Vim: Encoding (Unicode) in Terminal under Windows

Question

I don\'t know why, but this topic seems to be badly documented and is covered with controversies as nobody knows the real answer (except for maybe Mr. Moolenaar, who rarely

Answer 1

There was recently a patch for "Windows 8 IME in console Vim". It was cleaned up by mattn and posted here: https://gist.github.com/mattn/8312677

It was included with 7.4.142. Does that version fix your issue?

Answer 2

I've wondered about this myself too and in the past tried ConEmu and gave up after struggling to get console vim with 256 colors and fancy fonts working on it.

So today I tried out for sometime again and surprise, surprise - things seem to be working. Given all the extreme sensitiveness to versions, I'm going to try and list down versions of everything

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Aug  1 2014 09:38:34)
MS-Windows 32-bit console version
Included patches: 1-389
Compiled by raghuramanr@ADITI

ConEmu

140723 Alpha

Windows: Win 7x64

ConEmu settings in .vimrc:

" ConEmu
if !empty($CONEMUBUILD)
    echom "Running in conemu"
    set termencoding=utf8
    set term=xterm
    set t_Co=256
    let &t_AB="\e[48;5;%dm"
    let &t_AF="\e[38;5;%dm"
    " termcap codes for cursor shape changes on entry and exit to
    " /from insert mode
    " doesn't work
    "let &t_ti="\e[1 q"
    "let &t_SI="\e[5 q"
    "let &t_EI="\e[1 q"
    "let &t_te="\e[0 q"
endif

Steps:

chcp 65001
vim.exe

I still can't get a blinking cursor in vim which is confusing. Still better than before when stuff would be messed up.