On 10/04/10 01:48, Luis P. Mendes wrote:
Hi,
I use Vim everyday, I could say at every hour :-) in X graphical mode.
$ vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Aug 24 2009 20:12:41)
Included patches: 1-245
I tried to use Vim with no X, in text base mode, but there was one
problem with accented characters. I could not use them and the ones
that where inserted before in graphical mode were like strange
characters.
Example:
ã with X, is ~a in text mode
the same with é --> 'e
I checked LC_ALL and is defined to pt_PT in either situations.
What should I correct to be able to use Vim in text mode in my
Slackware 13 64 bits box?
Luis
There seems to be something weird in the way your terminal represents
characters. What does bash answer to
echo -e '\0351'
? Mine replies with a reverse-video question mark because my terminal is
in UTF-8; if yours is in Latin1 the reply ought to be é, but if it is 'e
it shows that the terminal interprets é -> 'e after bash outputs it. (In
a UTF-8 terminal, to get é you need echo -e '\xC3\xA9' but then your
LC_CTYPE [or your LC_ALL, which overrides all other locale settings]
should be pt_PT.utf8 .)
To see all possible Portuguese locales, use
locale -a |grep ^pt
On my system, the answer is
pt_BR
pt_BR.utf8
pt_PT
pt...@euro
pt_PT.utf8
I'm not sure how to tweak the way your Linux terminal represents
characters above 0x7F.
Note that GNU bash's implementation of echo (as shown above) is not
POSIX-compliant. If you're using a different shell, either use bash as
an auxiliary shell, or find out if and how your implementation of echo
differs from mine.
Best regards,
Tony.
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