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# 1  
Old 06-20-2012
Question Locales UTF8 - not working
Hello,

I'm facing a strange problem in one of my Debian server, what is happening right now it that I have runned dpkg-reconfigure locales to set en_US UTF-8 so in that way I could use accentuation in my system.

Code:
# locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX
pt_BR.utf8

However, when I create a new file via console like vi test and I try to use "ç" or "é" for example the char is broken.

Any ideas?Smilie
# 2  
Old 06-20-2012
The terminal has to support UTF8, too. What terminal are you using?
# 3  
Old 06-20-2012
putty, however if I write "é" in the shell, it works, if I use echo "é" > test and cat test it works but if I do vi test and try "é" it fails.

Code:
# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

# 4  
Old 06-20-2012
What version of vi?
# 5  
Old 06-20-2012
In vi, do:
Code:
:set encoding=utf8

# 6  
Old 06-21-2012
Code:
# vi --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Jul 12 2010 12:49:33)
Included patches: 1-445

I did the
Code:
:set encoding=utf8

however that didn't work, my problem is, I have a script that have a email on it that when a user match a specific query, it sends an e-mail through exim. These e-mail is in Portuguese that is the reason that I'm getting this issue.

Any other ideas?
# 7  
Old 06-21-2012
Did you check your putty setting under "window -> translation -> remote character set"?
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