When I am editing a file in Vim I have some lines with a bunch of Â displayed. I have already checked the encoding with <pre class="prettyprint"><code>:set encoding </code></pre> It says utf8 <pre class="prettyprint"><code>encoding=utf8 </code></pre> Anybody knows where this is comming from and how to stop this behaviour? Regards, Jeremy

Vim show strange Â characters over putty

When I am editing a file in Vim I have some lines with a bunch of Â displayed.

I have already checked the encoding with

:set encoding

It says utf8

encoding=utf8

Anybody knows where this is comming from and how to stop this behaviour?

Regards,

Jeremy

Make sure that PuTTY is set for UTF-8 as well. You can do this under Window -> Translation -> Remote Character Set. You may need to choose a font that supports a reasonable portion of the Unicode range as well -- Terminal isn't necessarily going to cut it.