vim displays weird characters when using UTF-8 (unicode)
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 3:39 pm
[PROBLEM]
After changing vim's settings to Unicode:
I was unable to enter any umlaut characters (like "ö ä ü"). They appeared like this on my screen:
[SOLUTION]
My terminal client (in this case "PuTTy") was not expecting unicode characters, but still iso-8859-1 (latin1).
So check your terminal's encoding. In PuTTy it's in:
"Window > Translation > Character set translation on received data"
TIP: (On Windows: You can change/check in realtime if you right-click on the icon in the upper-left corner of the putty window and select "change settings")
After changing vim's settings to Unicode:
Code: Select all
set fileencoding=utf-8
set fileencodings=utf-8
set encoding=utf-8
set termencoding=utf-8ö ä ü
[SOLUTION]
My terminal client (in this case "PuTTy") was not expecting unicode characters, but still iso-8859-1 (latin1).
So check your terminal's encoding. In PuTTy it's in:
"Window > Translation > Character set translation on received data"
TIP: (On Windows: You can change/check in realtime if you right-click on the icon in the upper-left corner of the putty window and select "change settings")