Hello, I tested other locales today and found that this happened only in UTF-8 locales.
First, I changed into a zh_CN.GBK locale. Then I mkdired a dir tree with names in chinese. I changed into this dir tree and vim behaved properly. After exiting from vim, everything is OK. Second, I changed into a zh_CN.UTF-8 locale. I made a test like above and the bug reported in my previous mail happened, that is, after exiting from vim, the characters in gnome-terminal are displayed as unrecognizable ones. Second, I changed into a en_US.UTF-8 locale. I made this test too. After exiting, the characters are displayed properly but the computer will `beep' as if it encountered some error. I opened vim again and typed `ctrl-z' to hang up vim temporally. I found the characters had been in a mass. So I guess, this bug might happen only in UTF-8 locales. Thank you. -- Hongzheng Wang Department of Electronic Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084, China Tel: (+86 10) 6279 6973 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]