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Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars

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On 2021-05-18 18:37, IL Ka wrote:
> 
>     Thanks all. I looked at my config files (which go back at least 15
>     years) and found lots of explicitly setting both LC_ALL=C and LC_LANG=C.
> 
>     Should I remove all, or just remove the LC_ALL?
> 
> 
>  > Using LC_ALL is strongly discouraged as it overrides everything. 
> Please use it only when testing and never set it in a startup file.
> https://wiki.debian.org/Locale <https://wiki.debian.org/Locale>
> 
> It is better to set everything explicitly in "/etc/default/locale"
> 
> Even better: use
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
> it will generate all locales you need AND set the default one in this file.
> 
> There is NO reason to use anything except UTF-8 in 2021

Please, be aware that not all Desktop Environments (like KDE's Plasma) 
honour this setting. Often, they have their own mechanisms for setting 
the locale within the DE itself.

Grx HdV

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Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2021-05-18 18:30 +0200
  Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-05-18 18:40 +0200
    Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2021-05-18 19:10 +0200
      Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2021-05-18 20:40 +0200
        Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-18 21:20 +0200
    Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2021-05-20 14:20 +0200
  Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-18 19:40 +0200

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