After looking around in the help, the reasoning behind the current behavior seems to be described in ":help encoding-table" and in general, using the following will get the behavior you want:
:let &termencoding = &encoding :set encoding=utf-8 There are various caveats explained in that help section though. If you feel the description and workaround are sufficient, please close the bug. Otherwise, I would be interested in hearing how this doesn't meet your requirements. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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