John Little <[email protected]> writes: > On Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 4:52:26 PM UTC+13, Random832 wrote: > >> "U+25BD WHITE DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE" > > Well done, is all I can say. > > How do you start an xterm in non-utf8 mode?
As far as I can tell, it's non-utf8 by default when it's started as xterm [not uxterm] and the LC_CTYPE locale is set to a non-UTF8 locale. Since the XQuartz application menu doesn't seem to initialize the locale variables, I was getting the issue from xterms started that way. > If I reset my locale to C > and start an xterm then vim, vim uses latin1 and only the bd byte is > output. MacVim defaults to enc=utf-8 even with the locale set to C; I can no longer reproduce the issue with the other versions. > IMO, the code should explain why this magic number character is used. > Then we'd know how to pick another, maybe. I think it explains it well enough, it's one of the ambiguous width characters (that is, characters that are double-width in East Asian character sets, but single width in other character sets). -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
