Vim doesn't support unicode?

Question

I\'m trying to get the following into my .vimrc

\" Use the same symbols as TextMate for tabstops and EOLs
set listchars=tab:▸\\ ,eol:¬

Thos

Answer 1

I had the same issue with the vim that ships with OS X Lion although it was compiled with multi_byte.

The issue was the encoding used by vim. I added set encoding=utf-8 in my ~/.vimrc and the issue was solved.

Ref: Terminal Vim redraw issues in OS X Lion