Gnome terminal does not display VIM's extended characters (digraphs) properly

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Mon Dec 8 11:33:23 PST 2008


On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 11:04 -0800, Clint Olsen wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I noticed xterm does this correctly, but gnome-terminal does not.  If
> you're in vim and type ":dig", you should see a list of the extended
> characters available to you.  With gnome-terminal you get a bunch of
> reverse video question marks for the upper characters.

Works for me.

> 
> Is there some encoding/setting I need to tweak?

Make sure your LANG is set to a UTF-8 locale (e.g. en_US.UTF-8), and
that your gnome-terminal encoding is set to Current Locale (UTF-8).

Joe

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