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Letter 🅱️ prints as ¥ in MacVim (but not in terminal Vim or less)
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Description
Try typing 🅱️ (or opening a text file with that in it) in MacVim. It will display it as ¥.
If you inspect the character with :ascii you see it is the correct character in the status line, albeit it displayed as the text version of the emoji. Writing the file correctly writes it as 🅱️, it just displays as ¥.
Opening it with Vim on Terminal.app displays it correctly, as does with less.
Here's my MacVim version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Aug 8 2018 18:09:39)
macOS version
Included patches: 1-235
Compiled by Homebrew
I use font Menlo.
Here's my Vim version (it's the same one)
vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Aug 8 2018 18:09:39)
macOS version
Included patches: 1-235
Compiled by Homebrew
I'm running on macOS High Sierra version 10.13.6 (17G65).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the display issue in MacVim on macOS High Sierra with the Menlo font, then compare the same emoji in Terminal Vim and less. Use :ascii and a saved file to verify the character remains correct; done means 🅱️ displays as the emoji rather than ¥ without changing the written character.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, vim
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100