Re: vim & xterm problems

[Christoph Singer <cs@xxxxxxx>]

Markus Kuhn wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Christoph Singer wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> The "set termencoding=utf-8" part should *NOT* be necessary!
> This is not an acceptable solution. Vim should detect the terminal
> character set automatically from the locale.
>
> Please verify, whether you have really successfully set a UTF-8
> locale. In particular, does "locale charmap" output "UTF-8"
> as the encoding of the current locale? If not, make sure that
> no LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL is overriding your LANG setting and that
> there is really the selected locale installed in /usr/lib/locale/
> ("locale -a" for a list of normalised locale names).

chris@linux:~ > locale charmap
UTF-8
chris@linux:~ > echo $LC_TYPE

chris@linux:~ > echo $LC_ALL

chris@linux:~ > locale -a
C
POSIX
... <snip> ...
de_DE
de_DE.UTF-8
de_DE.utf8
de_DE@euro
de_LU
...

May be there is a problem regarding de_DE.UTF-8 <-> de_DE.utf8?
I created this locale using
localedef -i de_DE@euro -f UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8
but the resulting directory in /usr/lib/locale was called de_DE.utf8, 
and some programs gave the error message: "No such locale" when using 
de_DE.UTF-8. That's why I created de_DE.UTF-8 as a symlink to the 
de_DE.utf8 directory in /usr/lib/locale. How is it right? de_DE.utf8 or 
de_DE.UTF-8?

Thanks for your help,
Christoph

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