On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08.02.16 10:50, Matt Ackeret wrote: >> The next text will be from the Russian input method: >> АВСРОМИС >> >> This wasn't typed in Terminal, but I just typed Russian characters >> into Terminal, and they showed up fine. > > Viewing Cyrillic, Greek, or Russian characters doesn't work for me in > "xterm" on Debian 7.8.0, either in mutt or vim. Mutt just renders them > invisible, and vim displays the above line as: > > -D0-90-D0-92-D0-A1-D0-A0-D0-9E-D0-9C-D0-98-D0-A1 > > ( I did s/-/=/g , so as not to render as sent in your environment.) > > If I use "xterm -lc", then mutt displays the above characters as > Russian, confirming a utf-8 locale AFAICT, but vim still gives the "=xx" > stuff, both within mutt, and invoked directly in the "xterm -lc". Hmmm, > is this relevant?: > > $ echo $LOCALE > > I.e. it's not set. > > Alas, trying "xterm -en UTF-8" doesn't make any difference. Mutt still > works, and vim fails. > > Does anyone know what it takes to get vim to display Cyrillic, Greek, or > Russian characters in a (utf-8 enabled) xterm? (Note: Vim encoding while > editing this post, in which the Russian won't display, is > "encoding=utf-8") > > There's no problem with Danish: åæø > or German: ßöä > > Erik >
My xterm displays the Cyrillic characters above as Cyrillic, even in Vim, so it is definitely possible. My only xterm startup argument is a -geometry parameter (xterm -geometry 160x60) to give it a "reasonable" size on my 1280x1024 screen. I think the reason it works for me is related with my bash startup scripts, one of which (I'm not sure which: see "man bash" for details) sets the following environment variables: export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_TIME=en_GB export LC_PAPER=en_GB export LC_NUMERIC=C If you use (t)csh instead the syntax would of course be different. $LANG is the fallback for any undefined locale variable, and $LC_ALL (intentionally unset) would override them all. Since $LC_CTYPE (the character set) is not set, it defaults to the value of $LANG, which sets UTF-8. Then if once these settings are set you still don't see non-ASCII characters, you might have to find out how to start xterm with a different font. (The two "British" settings are so I get A4 paper and dd/mm/yyyy dates.) In addition, for Vim you may need to make sure that it uses UTF-8 internally, see http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode Best regards, Tony. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
