Re: vim & xterm problems

[Christoph Singer <cs@xxxxxxx>]

Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>Christoph Singer wrote:

> > But vim 6.0au does not display some characters properly: e.g. German 
> > lowercase umlauts are displayed properly, uppercase umlauts and ß are 
> > not. 
> I would expect either none of the non-ASCII characters to work or all of
> them.  Strange.  Did you check the options 'encoding' (should be
> "utf-8") and 'termencoding' (should be empty)?


It works now!!! Here is what I did:

1. At first, when the stange behaviour appeared that some characters 
where displayed and others not, vim was compiled without any additional 
configuration options. (no --enable-multibyte or so...). Gvim showed two 
latin-1 characters for 1 non-ascii utf8 character, then.

2. I recompiled with --enable-multibyte
and in my .vimrc I set encoding=utf8 according to your posting.
Things looked even stranger - now for every expected non-ascii character 
 4 characters were displayed! I guess that vim treated every two-byte 
character as two latin-1 characters and converted each of them to utf-8...
when vim started up, it said "invalid option encoding=utf-8".

3. I deleted encoding=utf-8 from my .vimrc and decided to try not to leave 

"termencoding" empty but to set it to "utf-8". And now, it works perfectly! 

In summary what I did:

- compiled with --enable-multibyte
- added "set termencoding=utf-8" to .vimrc

Thanks for this great utf8-editor! (I will probably not need yudit any 
longer...) And thanks to all who helped to bring unicode support to Linux!!

Christoph





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