[kwlug-disc] Vim with unicode ...

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

I am having a problem with special characters in Vim.

The background: InfluxDB has "measurements" instead
of tables in relational databases. A measurement is
usually named after the unit, e.g. degrees, %, ...etc

Degrees here is for celsius, and it is an actual degree
unicode (hex c0b2).

When I try to edit a script that has the this in it, vim
loses its position and display in any characters after
the special character.

To illustrate this, copy this line from Pastebin, into
a file:
https://pastebin.com/8aaXZirA

Then search for the number 3, and substitute it
with a string, e.g abc.

Then press Ctrl L, and you will see that vim is no
at the correct character visually.
If I edit the same file in Mousepad, everything is
as it should be. But that is a GUI application not
a CLI one on a remote terminal.

Anyone else facing this issue?
What is your $TERM variable set to?
Any special configuration for vim or the terminal?

-- 
Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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