Vim: Encoding (Unicode) in Terminal under Windows

I've wondered about this myself too and in the past tried ConEmu and gave up after struggling to get console vim with 256 colors and fancy fonts working on it.

So today I tried out for sometime again and surprise, surprise - things seem to be working. Given all the extreme sensitiveness to versions, I'm going to try and list down versions of everything

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Aug  1 2014 09:38:34)MS-Windows 32-bit console versionIncluded patches: 1-389Compiled by raghuramanr@ADITI

ConEmu

140723 Alpha

Windows: Win 7x64

ConEmu settings in .vimrc:

" ConEmuif !empty($CONEMUBUILD)    echom "Running in conemu"    set termencoding=utf8    set term=xterm    set t_Co=256    let &t_AB="\e[48;5;%dm"    let &t_AF="\e[38;5;%dm"    " termcap codes for cursor shape changes on entry and exit to    " /from insert mode    " doesn't work    "let &t_ti="\e[1 q"    "let &t_SI="\e[5 q"    "let &t_EI="\e[1 q"    "let &t_te="\e[0 q"endif

Steps:

chcp 65001vim.exe

I still can't get a blinking cursor in vim which is confusing. Still better than before when stuff would be messed up.

There was recently a patch for "Windows 8 IME in console Vim". It was cleaned up by mattn and posted here:https://gist.github.com/mattn/8312677

It was included with 7.4.142. Does that version fix your issue?