I'm using vim as my editor, and I'm pretty sure that everything is OK with utf-8 in vim. "file" on files created by vim in the console show e.g:
<filename>: UTF-8 Unicode text ...and my norwegian characters show as expected on my newly installed Fedora Core 6-server. I'm reading mail from a postfix/maildir-spool. Mutt shows the characters as expected, but when it sends the text to vim, something strange happens. Sometimes. Or - about 50 % of the times. If I press r for Reply on a mail with norwegian characters - half the times vim will show the correct characters, while they will be garbled the rest of the times. r for Reply, :q to quit without editing, and r for Reply again over and over will alternate on the displayed result. Below is an example of the same text, copied from the vim-window (console): | Da er vi enig, for det ser jeg og :) | Æææ du får ha en øøø god dag åååå kose deg! | Da er vi enig, for det ser jeg og :) | Ã<86>ææ du fÃ¥r ha en øøø god dag åååå kose deg! I'm led to believe that it is mutt who sends the wrong content-type to vim, but I'm far from sure. Anyone else who has seen this? -- "I had amnesia once or twice." - Steve Wright
