how to make vim recognize CJK characters and render them larger than ASCII?

Question

Hello there,

I am using vim to work on both Chinese and Western text. The default font size is okay for Western text, but the Chinese characters, while readable, are too small for my taste. Can I tell vim to render CJK fonts with, say, 14pt while not affecting the font size of all other text?

Thanks for your ideas/solutions!

Guba

Answer 1

If you are using gVim try to set guifontwide to different font. You can try MS Mincho or MS Gothic on Windows.

Note, that on all GUI versions but GTK+ 2 guifontwide option is used only when encoding is set to utf-8 and guifontset is empty or invalid. More info in :help guifontwide.