I installed NERDTree via Pathogen on Mac OSX 10.6.8.
When I vim a dir, I cannot enter into sub dirs with enter key. Furthermore, the dirs look like this:
?~V? doc/
What's going on?
asked Jan 6, 2012 at 4:14
7 Answers
Putting this in my .vimrc solved the problem: let g:NERDTreeDirArrows=0
The creator gave me the fix: https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdtree/issues/108
answered Jan 6, 2012 at 13:42
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1Thanks. Definitely use the reference link here as it helped solve my problem. I had to set encoding=utf-8 in the top of .vimrc file and everything worked– Rusty1Commented Nov 15, 2016 at 9:29
On Mountain Lion 10.8.2
This worked for me
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
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1Thanks. This had to be added to the .bashrc file which is in C:Users\<your user name> directory. Commented Feb 2, 2016 at 15:56
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I followed jernkuan's answer but didn't work. What worked for me was typing :set encoding=utf-8 inside vim But I lose this when I exit out of vim. I have to do this everytime I am on vim
answered Feb 2, 2016 at 16:18
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8You can add
set encoding=utf-8to your .vimrc to enable this by default! Any command that you enter in vim you can add to your .vimrc. Your solution was the only one that worked for me!– haffCommented May 10, 2016 at 19:00 -
1I like this solution the best since it isolates the changes to vim.– studgeekCommented Jul 5, 2016 at 18:24
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1This should be marked as the answer. combined with haff's comment Commented Jun 27, 2017 at 16:34
If you'd still like to try to get the arrow characters to work, here is my answer from Why does my nerd tree have these odd characters. I run Arch Linux, so your mileage may vary.
I had this exact same problem and was able to fix it by uncommenting UTF-8 and leaving ISO-8879-1 commented out in /etc/locale.gen. Then I ran locale-gen and restarted. Also added 'export LANG=en_US.UTF-8' to my .bashrc. Here are the results of my locale settings once it started working:
[lysistrata@(none) ~]$ locale -a
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX
[lysistrata@(none) ~]$
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I'm using RedHat 6.1 and vim 7.3 and had to recompile vim with multibyte support.
$ cd ~/src && wget ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.3.tar.bz2
$ tar xjf vim-7.3.tar.bz2 && cd vim-7.3
$ ./configure --enable-multibyte
$ make
$ sudo make install
Then verify that multibyte support has been enabled.
$ vim --version | grep byte
-arabic +autocmd -balloon_eval -browse +builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent
+mouse_xterm +multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme +netbeans_intg -osfiletype
answered Feb 12, 2013 at 21:28
Check locale on your system, if output is something like this one
LANG=C then do the following steps:
sudo echo "LANG=en_US.UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.confsudo locale-genandsudo reboot
check your locale again. Hope this can solve your problem.
On my fedora 27, I just put set encoding=utf-8 into mine ~/.vimrc file, and it starts working properly.
+sign. Vim in the terminal (I think) or MacVim? Vim version? If Vim in the terminal what does$ echo $TERMin the terminal says and do you use Terminal.app or iTerm?