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Vim does not actually default 'encoding' to UTF-8. It defaults to latin1, but will change based on the locale of your environment.
Valid UTF8 has a specific binary format. If it's a single byte UTF8 character, then it is always of form '0xxxxxxx', where 'x' is any binary digit. If it's a two byte UTF8 character, then it's always of form '110xxxxx10xxxxxx'.
UTF-8 supports any unicode character, which pragmatically means any natural language (Coptic, Sinhala, Phonecian, Cherokee etc), as well as many non-spoken languages (Music notation, mathematical symbols, APL).
Did you try
:set encoding=utf-8
:set fileencoding=utf-8
?
Try to reload the document using:
:e! ++enc=utf8
If that works you should maybe change the fileencodings settings in your .vimrc.
If Japanese people come here, please add the following lines to your ~/.vimrc
set encoding=utf-8
set fileencodings=iso-2022-jp,euc-jp,sjis,utf-8
set fileformats=unix,dos,mac
On Microsoft Windows, gvim wouldn't allow you to select non-monospaced fonts. Unfortunately Latha is a non-monospaced font.
There is a hack way to make it happen: Using FontForge (you can download Windows binary from http://www.geocities.jp/meir000/fontforge/) to edit the Latha.ttf and mark it as a monospaced font. Doing like this:
Good luck!
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