Inserting a Unicode character in VIM
Published: Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008 Last modified: Monday, Nov 11, 2024
Ok, lets first lookup the character we want with unicode:
x61:~% unicode -r peace
U+262E PEACE SYMBOL
UTF-8: e2 98 ae UTF-16BE: 262e Decimal: ☮
☮
Category: So (Symbol, Other)
Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)
U+4DCA HEXAGRAM FOR PEACE
UTF-8: e4 b7 8a UTF-16BE: 4dca Decimal: ䷊
䷊
Category: So (Symbol, Other)
Bidi: ON (Other Neutrals)
The important element is the U+262E part, which is the Unicode codepoint.
Now into insert the PEACE SYMBOL, in INSERT MODE type:
[Ctrl]+[v], [u], [2], [6], [2], [E]
If you can’t see the inserted character, try gvim
. Also try place the cursor over the character an use ga
shortcut to examine the character underneath the cursor.
ga
might report something like:
<?> 9774, Hex 262e, Octal 23056
Understand the Hexadecimal is the key to the codepoint.