How to view UTF-8 Characters in VIM or Gvim

Question

I work on webpages involving Non-English scripts from time to time, most of them uses utf-8 charset, VIM and Gvim does not display UTF-8 Characters correctly.

Using

Answer 1

Try to reload the document using:

:e! ++enc=utf8

If that works you should maybe change the fileencodings settings in your .vimrc.

Answer 2

If Japanese people come here, please add the following lines to your ~/.vimrc

set encoding=utf-8
set fileencodings=iso-2022-jp,euc-jp,sjis,utf-8
set fileformats=unix,dos,mac

Answer 3

I couldn't get any other fonts I installed to show up in my Windows GVim editor, so I just switched to Lucida Console which has at least somewhat better UTF-8 support. Add this to the end of your _vimrc:

" For making everything utf-8
set enc=utf-8
set guifont=Lucida_Console:h9:cANSI
set guifontwide=Lucida_Console:h12

Now I see at least some UTF-8 characters.