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How to use UTF-8 in vim on Mac OS X?

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Problem

I want to edit UTF-8 documents with vim (7.2 installed via MacPorts, big feautre set, iconv support enabled, multi-byte support enabled) on Mac OS X 10.4 within terminal.app. Terminal.app is configured to use Monaco font (which has good Unicode coverage) and use UTF-8 as the character set encoding.ā€¦

Error Output

LC_ALL=pl_PL.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
export LC_ALL
export LC_CTYPE
export LANG

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Fix for: How to use UTF-8 in vim on Mac OS X?

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Check out this: (Thanks to Peter Vohmann for this Q&A.) In Terminal.app go the the Terminal (main) menu and choose Window Settings. Select Emulation from the popup menu, un-check the item "Escape non-ASCII characters". Then select Display from the pā€¦

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