changing vim's vertsplit character to │

Question

This is, I assume, codepage related, but doesn't hurt asking.

How would one, on windows xp's cmd, gvim 7.2 change vertsplit character, so that instead of default | it is │ (so that it makes a full, and not an splitted line) ?

That character is usually changed with

set fillchars=vert:\|

and I can copy paste the ascii graphics line there, but it comes out as garbage. I suppose I would have to change vim's internal codepage for it to show correctly ?

Anyone knows how to do this ?

Answer 1

I've tried the following :

set enc=utf-8
set fillchars=vert:\│

And it worked, but the result weren't has good as you can hope, it's still not a full line (using the Consolas font, if you get a straight line with another font, I'd be interested to know which one).

Answer 2

This isn't exactly what you want, but I've set fillchars= and just use highliting to hilight the blank space a different color. It's less elegant, but it looks fine to me.

edit: filchars->fillchars, thanks.