Windows – Using Romanian keyboard with gVim

This is a very old question, but all of the answers given here are wrong.

You will never see Unicode output on the Windows command line (CMD.exe). The reason is that CMD cannot display Unicode. It can, however, display DBCS (Double-Byte Character Set).

If you want to see Japanese output, for example, you have to change your System Locale to Japanese and reboot. Then, you'll be able to see Japanese DBCS (i.e. Shift-JIS) characters on the command line. Windows supports Japanese Shift-JIS, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and Traditional Chinese "Big5" DBCS code pages.

Incidentally, you can pipe UTF-16 (inaccurately used interchangeably with "Unicode" by Microsoft) to a file, then open that file in, say, Notepad, and view the Unicode characters. You can also mark and copy the gibberish text from CMD.exe and paste it into Notepad and see the Unicode characters. In other words, CMD supports Unicode, but it doesn't display Unicode.

You can find more information in this blog post.

vim is designed for using the keyboard efficiently, not for using the mouse. thus, i find your complaint about a bad "gui" a bit awkward. if you do not like vim or if you do not want to learn how things are done in vim, thats just fine. but then you have to use another editor because vim just does not match your requirements.

so, i doubt there will be any gui-version of vim that matches your expectations of what a decent "graphical" editor should look like or should behave.