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 have the following in my .vimrc

scriptencoding utf-8
set encoding=utf-8

and that in my .gvimrc

set listchars=trail:·,precedes:«,extends:»,eol:↲,tab:▸\ 

and works fine(notice there is a space after the ▸\ ).

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

Make sure you're using a compatible font. My problem was that inconsolata-g does not support the utf-8 characters in my document.

also, this was all I needed in my gvimrc:

set enc=utf-8
set fileencoding=utf-8
set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf8,prc
set guifont=Monaco:h14
set guifontwide=NSimsun:h14

Answer 4

Don't forget, if you're running vim in a terminal, make sure the terminal itself is using utf-8 as well.

Answer 5

I had this issue while being in a screen session. It's gone with setting the following in my .bashrc:

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Answer 6

The accepted answer didn't work for me. Working off of the downloaded source on a Mac running Lion, I went into the src directory and ran:

make clean
export CONF_OPT_MULTIBYTE='--enable-multibyte'
make reconfig

Running: ./vim --version to check for +muti_byte then:

make install

Via: http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/compiling-vim7-1-huge-version-gets-build-with-normal-version-td1162314.html