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twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Annoying issue with "special characters"

I need to produce these special characters:

¤
and
ø

Now ofcourse I can copy and paste to get them, but after writing them to a file, they don't produce the same character, if that doesn't make sense I'll try to clear it up. I run a windows game through wine, and in the configuration file I need to use special characters in my name, they look fine in the editor, after  I write the file, then go in game, the characters are completely different. Which is quite annoying. Is there anyway I can get these to truely be the character I want on linux?

edit:
more info, I wrote the file with vim, I then opened it with nano to see exactly what I saw in game. Is this an output problem of vim?

allucid

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Registered: 2006-01-06

Posts: 259

Re: Annoying issue with "special characters"

It sounds like the problem is that the game doesn't support the encoding you are using.

twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: Annoying issue with "special characters"

It sounds like the problem is that the game doesn't support the encoding you are using.

Hmm any idea on how to change vim's encoding? nano works correctly. So I used that instead. BUt I'd much rather use vim.

user

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Registered: 2006-03-29

Posts: 465

Re: Annoying issue with "special characters"

http://www.vim.org/search.php

I guess there is the right place to ask about "encoding".

PS: http://www.vim.org/community.php

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twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: Annoying issue with "special characters"

http://www.vim.org/search.php

I guess there is the right place to ask about "encoding".

PS: http://www.vim.org/community.php

Thanks for the links