I ran it through xxd and the hex-bytes are different than those of the proper utf8 character:
03300a0: 7472 c383 c2b6 6d65 7209 3009 5c4e 0931 tr....mer.0.\N.1 (from the dump file) ö : c3b6 ö : c383 c2b6 -- Matt Williams Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Friday, April 6, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Steve Crawford wrote: > On 04/06/2012 01:10 PM, Matt Williams wrote: > > With that same dump file that is displaying incorrectly open in vim, I > > can paste in the utf8 character I provided as an example and it > > displays correctly. > > > > I usually find a good first step is to run the file through something > that will give you a hex dump (i.e. xxd or similar) and so I *know* the > actual bytes in the file rather than relying on how they may be > interpreted somewhere else along the chain. Find the hex-byte(s) of your > suspect character and look it up. > > Since you are in vim, it may be worth checking ":set termencoding", > ":set encoding" and ":set fileencoding". > > Cheers, > Steve > >