Random832 wrote:
> 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).
If 'encoding' is utf-8 and your terminal isn't, you need to set 'tenc'
to "latin1".
Note that using a non-utf-8 terminal while 'encoding' is utf-8 means
there are many characters that can't be displayed.
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