unicode - How do I get MinTTY working with UTF8

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2014-07
  • Aidenn

    I am using msys mintty on vista.

    My font is Deja Vu Sans Mono, which has excellent unicode coverage.

    The simplest test is to just cat this file: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt all non-ascii characters show up as boxed questionmarks.

    I have explicitly set the encoding to UTF-8 in mintty's settings.

    Similarly pasting non-ascii text into mintty gives me garbage. What's going on? Everything I can find tells me that mintty should support unicode just fine.

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  • Aidenn

    MinTTY supports UTF-8 but MSys does not. The Cygwin build of MinTTY solved my problem.


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  • Tadeusz A. Kadłubowski

    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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  • CoreSandello

    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.

  • donut

    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.