How to use UTF-8 in vim on Mac OS X?
Solution 1
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 popup menu, set Character Set Encoding to Unicode (UTF-8), if desired. Click on "Use settings as Default."
(from MacVim Site)
As far as I remember, 10.4 Terminal.app has some troubles, when dealing with UTF-8; checking setting above would, probably, help. As an alternative solution, consider using MacVim or iTerm as terminal application.
Update: as Ben Stiglitz mentioned in comments, 10.4 Terminal is OK, but 10.4 bundled shells are not.
Solution 2
I don't know about Vim in the Terminal, but I have no troubles entering Korean characters in MacVim. This is with no extra setup, just as it came.
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Updated on September 17, 2022Comments
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Tadeusz A. Kadłubowski over 1 year
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.
Keyboard map is set up correctly. I can enter some localized characters like „zażółć” and even quotes around that… (yeah, and an elypsis).
I've done my best to set up the environment:
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
I have no encoding, fileencoding or termencoding set in .vimrc, so that it should default to what's set in the locale.
What else have I missed? I can't enter non-ASCII UTF-8 characters in vim. It is interpreted as single-byte garbage rather than wider UTF-8 characters.
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Ben Stiglitz over 14 yearsTerminal 1.5 in 10.4 does fine with UTF-8 if you set your LANG properly. There are some issues with the shells, especially bash and tcsh, that were resolved in Leopard.
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Tadeusz A. Kadłubowski over 14 yearsUnselecting escape non-ASCII characters did the trick. I'll upgrade to snow leopard in a week or two anyway. Thanks
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Trajan Unger over 12 yearsDid the trick for me! OS X 10.7.2, homebrew console Vim (to get clipboard support).
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Johan about 9 yearsThanks, this problem stumpted me for a while today, thinking why some characters didn't work no matter what encoding I used.
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slm about 5 yearsLinks busted ....