[kwlug-disc] Vim with unicode ...

[Doug Moen]

I type funny characters like ° into vim all the time, even over ssh.

This environment variable might be relevant:
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8

Vim needs to know that the character encoding is UTF-8.

On Sun, Dec 1, 2024, at 12:33 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> 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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