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Unicode Characters in Vim

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JK
Juliet Kemp
Jun 17, 2009

“The slow way is just to use their hex code. Hit Ctrl+V, then u,
then type the hex code. For example, hex code 00BF will give you an
inverted question mark, ¿. This is useful if you only very
occasionally want to type one of these characters. Lists of UTF-8
character codes are available online. A better bet is to set up
digraphs.”

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