When typing unicode symbols inside vim(in my case german umlauts) on my shiny new gentoo installation. either the character is not displayed correctly or a space character is attached. Happens also for vim-7.2-182 Setting enc=utf-u8 fixes Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Switch to tty, start vim 2. enter unicode symbols (e.g ä,ö,ü or ß) 3. Actual Results: wrong display Expected Results: display the characters correctly
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I'm a fool. Setting LC_CTYPE to a locale supporting utf-8 (e.g. de_AT.UTF-8) fixes. LC_CTYPE was set to "C". Sorry, I was dead sure it was not set to C.
