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Can't see the Chinese characters in VIM

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Mar 15, 20269042 views
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I find that when I type Chinese characters (encoded with UTF-8) into VIM, I cannot see them at all while they do exist there. I can copy and paste them into other text editors and it seems everything is fine. How can I fix this problem?

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Fix for: Can't see the Chinese characters in VIM

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you are not using a font which contains the glyphs needed to display the characters you typed. so, choose the right font via or which would pop up a font-selection-dialog. and once you have a working font make it permanent by putting to your .gvimrc…

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