How to view UTF-8 Characters in VIM or Gvim

Question

I work on webpages involving Non-English scripts from time to time, most of them uses utf-8 charset, VIM and Gvim does not display UTF-8 Characters correctly.

Using

Answer 1

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:

1. Load fontforge, select latha.ttf.
2. Menu: Element -> Font Info
3. Select "OS/2" from left-hand list on Font Info dialog
4. Select "Panose" tab
5. Set Proportion = Monospaced
6. Save new TTF version of this font, try it out!

Good luck!