Jan, encountered this one, too. What's your fileencoding in vim (:set fileencoding?). You might want to try to set it either to utf-8 or latin-1. Latter worked for me despite having encoding set to utf-8. So you are experiencing a vim configuration issue here...
See also :h encoding and :h fileencoding in vim. HTH, Chris On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Jan-Herbert Damm <jan-h-d...@web.de> wrote: > Dear List, > > if somebody can tell me where to start digging into the following problem i am > grateful: > > I like to use "groff -mom" for typesetting. Recently i set up a new system > changing the locale from iso-8859-1 to utf8. I use vim to write texts. > German umlauts now produce the following errormessages: > > test.mom:136: can't translate character code 167 to special character `sc' in > transparent throughput > test.mom:139: can't translate character code 194 to special character `^A' in > transparent throughput > test.mom:139: can't translate character code 167 to special character `sc' in > transparent throughput > test.mom:139: can't translate character code 195 to special character `~A' in > transparent throughput > test.mom:139: can't translate character code 188 to special character `14' in > transparent throughput > > The resulting ps-file contains unwanted combinations of characters mostly > containing an 'A' with '~' on top. > > Processing a file backupped from the old system does not produce these > problems (vim's ":set all" output shows "encoding=utf8" there as it does in > test.mom here) > > My groff ist version 1.20.1 which i compiled after the generic groff 1.18.1 > from my ubuntu 8.10 produced this encoding problem to begin with. > > "$locale" outputs to: > LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > > I should add that i am haunted by encoding problems. I have incomprehensible > errors such as that if i put umlauts in my ".muttrc" the reply-mails in vim > have > wrong umlauts but if the ".muttrc" is clear of umlauts everything is fine. Or > that a non gui-terminal (via strg-alt-f1) prints all umlauts exept small 'ö' > (oe) and small 'ä' (ae). > > I am aware that this is a problem that might have been reported before but > i am unable to find answers since i can't pin down the problem in a sensible > way. And i am very frustrated. > > Any hints welcome. > > Jan > > -- > Time flies like the wind, but fruit flies like bananas. > (Dank an JP, ML mutt-users) > > >
