[6.3/vi] European characters?

[Walker]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Gilles <gilles.ganault at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello
>
>  vi can't display Euopean characters on my 6.3 setup. For instance, it
>  shows "Cr\xe9er" instead of "Créer".
>
>  Am I missing the right font, or is it some wrong setting somewhere?
>
>  Thank you.

It's your locale setting (man locale).  What I have set in bash, for example:

export LANG='en_US.UTF-8'
export LC_COLLATE='C'

Your terminal needs to match.