On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:55:23PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: : but if you use vim or emacs inside a terminal, you'll want to make sure : it's in iso-latin-1 mode (e.g. in gnome-terminal, you have to use the : menu: "Terminal->Set Character Encoding")
If you going to that trouble, at least try your terminal's utf-8 mode to see if it works. If it does, you can also see things like â or æå, not to mention Î and Ï. Vim supports utf-8; dunno about emacs. Larry