vi utf unicode characters

This entry was posted in Linux Sys admin on January 23, 2014 by techstruggles.

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If vi shows garbled unicode/utf-8 characters

Put in ~/.vimrc :

 

:set encoding=utf-8

:set fileencodings=utf-8

 

To debug vi, check ~/.vminfo which is generated each time vi starts.  It shows your encoding, etc.

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