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 >
