[vile] problem with 'wide characters' (utf-8) under macosx

[j. van den hoff]

hi list,

first time around here: I'm a happy user of `vile' for several years now  
and wouldn't go back to the original vi, nvi, vim, or elvis (tried out in  
that order...). a big thank you to the author(s)!

usually I'm running `vile' in an urxvt (or xterm) terminal in x11 under  
MacOSX. but by and then I want to use it in the native `Terminal.app'  
coming with macos. here's the problem: despite `Terminal.app' being set up  
for utf-8 character encoding, vile displays
non-ascii characters by their hexcode such as \u00E4. opening the same  
file in the same `Termninal.app' window with one of

nvi
elvis
vim
nano

displays the utf-8 (non-ascii) characters just fine. what am I doing  
wrong? any ideas?

best regards,

joerg

ps: observed with vile version 9.8 for darwin13.4.0, installed Mon Oct 27  
17:14:05 2014
and macosx 10.9.5

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