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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 11:56 -0800, Clint Olsen wrote:
> On Dec 08, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Works for me.
>  
> Ok.
> 
> > 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).
> 
> Ok, what if LANG= is unset?  If did change the Terminal->Character Encoding
> to UTF-8, but it didn't immediately have an effect.  I didn't realize we
> needed to set LANG ourselves.

If LANG is unset, digraph support doesn't work.  You need both.  LANG
should be set either by GDM or in your xinitrc.

Joe

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