Re: [Refdb-devel] latex bibliographies with multiple databases

[David N. <dav...@sw...>]

Hi Markus,

Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>> Many unicode characters (and certainly all the commonly used ones) are
>> entered by means of digraphs (using two or more keystrokes to specify
>> one character).  The mnemonics for these are fairly intuitive, like 'a:'
>> for a-umlaut.  Any unicode character can be entered with 'Ctrl-v uxxxx'
>> where 'xxxx' is the character code.
>>     
>
> Is there a link to some doc that explains this, by any chance? I thought about
> adding something like a tip box to the docs that briefly explains how to deal
> with Unicode characters for the most popular editors. I'd like to add URLs for
> further information.

Vim documentation is the ultimate triumph of substance over style.  In 
aggregate it contains every fact you could or would ever want to know 
about Vim.  The problem is it's almost impossible to find the 
information you want.  On the rare occasion you do it is so dry and 
technical as to be a foreign language altogether.

There actually appear to be three general methods of entering unicode 
characters:

1. Digraphs

I mentioned these in my previous post.  This is the easiest method to 
learn and remember.  Documentation is here: 
<http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/digraph.html>.  Same 
documentation is available within Vim by typing ':h digraphs'.  Type 
':digraphs' for a list of digraphs.

2. Keymaps

Frankly, I've skimmed this topic a few times and can't make head nor 
tail of it.  It claims unicode characters can be entered as combinations 
of other characters (sounds somewhat like digraphs but apparently is 
different).  Documentation is here: 
<http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/mbyte.html>.  Same documentation 
is available within Vim by typing ':h multibyte'.

3. Direct entry

This is done by 'Ctrl-v u xxxx' where 'xxxx' is the hex number of a 
unicode character.  Documentation is included in multi-byte help at 
<http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/mbyte.html#utf-8-typing> or 
within Vim by typing ':h utf-8-typing'.

Regards,
David.