Bug 475072

Summary:	vim set to utf-8 does not display polish characters
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	lejeczek <peljasz>
Component:	vim	Assignee:	Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	karsten
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Description lejeczek 2008-12-07 11:46:06 UTC

Description of problem:
vim has problem with polish (ogonki) characters when gnome terminal set to UTF-8

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Oct 21 2008 06:46:33)
Included patches: 1-25


How reproducible:
just type it in, 

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
~E~Y~[~Gó~Bżź~D
less interprets it incorrectly as binary file: <85><99><9B><87>ó<82>żź<84>

Expected results:
and cat on this file is just fine: ąęśćółżźń

Additional info:

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2008-12-08 14:21:27 UTC

can you reproduce this in KDE's konsole or in a plain xterm ? It works here with those two terminals when I paste your text.

Comment 2 lejeczek 2008-12-08 22:55:30 UTC

hi,
sorry, got it figured out that setting locale was the problem
setting locale to *.utf8 lets vim read and use polish characters