Important Notice: The previous binaries found in this page (the ones compiled on June 27, 2000 or before) are found to have a crashing bug when editing a large file (several megabytes or more than 32k lines). This bug was fixed by the patch 5.7.009. If you are using one of the old binaries, it is strongly recommended to use the following new binaries.

• Download runtime from the Vim-Mac original site or any other mirror sites (Japanese site is here).
• Download one of the following binaries and expand it to the same folder as the runtime folder is. (The compilation was done on August 9, 2000. Sit archives require a later version of StuffItExpander that can decode StuffIt5 format.)

  (bytes)		original	multibyte
  Japanese		NG	OK
  68K	sit archive	408,013	411,895
  	self-extended archive	547,665	551,547
  PPC	sit archive	458,460	462,587
  	self-extended archive	598,111	602,239
  FAT	sit archive	856,739	864,863
  	self-extended archive	996,391	1,004,514

• Put the following lines in the vimrc file (which should be in the same folder as the runtime folder is).

  set fileencoding=japan
  set guifont=(Some-Japanese-monospaced-font)
  

  These are the only settings required to use Japanese. I think Korean and Chinese can be used in a similar way, but I have not tested them.
• See screen shot (156,650 bytes) for a part of my settings.

Source files

The above binaries were created from

• vim-5.7-src.tar.gz,
• vim-5.7-rt.tar.gz,
• vim-5.7-extra.tar.gz, and
• official patch 5.7.001-5.7.009

following the instruction found in src/INSTALL_mac.txt. For Multibyte-enabled vim, #define MULTI_BYTE was set.

Compilation

PowerBook G3, MacOS J1-8.1, CodeWarrior Professional Release 5 (academic)

Others

The binaries available here are without any warranty. Please use them at your own risk.