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basic Tip #164: Make non-ASCII characters displayed on console

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created:   November 14, 2001 21:48      complexity:   basic
author:   Gerhard Häring      as of Vim:   5.7

I had a problem with VIM on the FreeBSD console: it didn't display characters like German umlauts correctly, but escaped them with a tilde. The solution is to teach VIM about printable characters. I use the following on my .vimrc:

set isprint=@,128-255

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