On Thursday, 20 March, 2014 at 17:27:41 GMT, Derek Martin wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:36:29AM +0000, Paul wrote:
Try "set encoding=utf-8" as the first thing in your .vimrc.
Paul, this is bad advice; please stop telling people to do this. It's
much more likely to make things worse, than better.
It is "highly recommended" to do this in such an environment as the OP's:
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#%27encoding%27
Perhaps I should stop persistently telling everyone (ie. a guy in a thread one
time) that suggestion.