Re: Vi problem

From: Noah Levitt (nlevitt@columbia.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 18 2003 - 12:28:34 EDT

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    Try running vim in a UTF-8 locale.

      $ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 vim

    Also, see ":help termencoding".

    Noah

    On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 17:50:42 +0200, Stefan Persson wrote:
    > Hi!
    >
    > I am using Vi (version Vi IMproved 6.1) on Linux using UTF-8 (xterm
    > -u8). If a UTF-8 characters does, when misinterpreted as Latin-1,
    > contain a control character, that character is displayed as something
    > different. For example, the Swedish capital "Ä" is displayed as a
    > square box followed by '~D'. Is there a way to get rid of this problem?
    >
    > Stefan
    >



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