SOLVED! Well I think I fixed by rtfm:
:set termenc=cp1252 Seems to work, but I don't know yet whether it breaks anything else. On (15:20 15/02/07), David Woodfall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> put forth the proposition: > I have a bit of a problem with encoding. A particular file (made in windows > btw) shows characters wrong in vim, but ok in gvim. Example: > > ¹²³⬠> > (made by holding alt-gr key and typing 1234). > > Gvim shows encoding as utf-8 as does vim, so I thought maybe it was a > problem with my terminal (mrxvt) but in Irssi I have set char-set as cp1252 > and these characters show correctly in my term. CP1252 doesn't appear to be > an option in vim though. Also the pound £ sign doesn't show correctly. > > Any ideas how to get around this problem? > > -- > "A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch > dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension." > -- Mandelbrot, "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" -- "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy ... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
