Re: vi: How to display German umlauts?

On Jul 08 18:55:11, rfabris@mhsmail.ch wrote:
> Dear friends
>
> OpenBSD 7.5: In my vi, German umlauts (diaeresis) are displayed as
> follows:
> Ä: \xc3\x84
> ä: \xc3\xa4
> Ö: \xc3\x96
> ö: \xc3\xb6
> Ü: \xc3\x9c
> ü: \xc3\xbc
>
> These strings appear to consist of 2 character groups, as pressing `x`
> 2 times deletes the complete string.
>
> In man vi(1), I couldn't find anything concerning the file encoding,
> and the vi command `:set all` didn't give me any hints.
>
> I log into cwm via xenodm and have the line
> `export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"` in the `~/.xsession` file, as
> suggested in `https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#locales`.
>
> The umlauts are displayed correctly in xterm.
>
> As I'd rather not switch to vim, I'd be very grateful for any tips
> concerning the display of umlauts in vi.

vi can't do it.