On 06.05.13 14:53, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > lately tried: > > tbl | groff -k -Tutf8 | uniq > output.file > > which works fine and I get german umlauts. But while "cat" will show > me the output correctly "vim" or even "less" will not.
When you try ":set fenc ?" in vim, does it show: fileencoding=utf-8 If not, try: :set fileencoding=utf-8 At least that works for me when I use vim as the editor within mutt, and use e.g. å,æ,ø. (See? We're back on topic, pretty much. :-) No initial colon, if added to your ~/.vimrc - but you knew that. Erik -- Didn't the prophet Urdure vanquish the Dragon of Sluth on the plain of Gidral after three days fighting? ... And wasn't it true that the sons of Exequial beat the hosts of Myrilom? - from The Book of Om, in Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.