Unicode in terminal and editors
Trying to use Terminal.app (on OS X 10.4.3) in my native language. First, Mac OS X seems dum enough to set LANG="C", even if the Aqua side is localized. That's easily fixed by setting LANG and re-running bash: after that it nicely accepts unicode characters from the keyboard and, for example, "less" also prints unicode characters correctly.
However, what I would like to do is edit some files using vim or emacs (or anything reasonable for crying out loud), but that seems too much to ask on OS X. Editor behaviour DOES change when changing LANG setting, but only for the worse: a unicode character's component bytes are treated as separate characters by the editors and when using a locale other than "C", they're also printed wrong, messing the display and cursor positioning hopelessly. Now for system claiming to be a MODERN UNIX, this should not be difficult. So, where's the catch? Could somebody outline how to do this relatively simple task right on OS X?
However, what I would like to do is edit some files using vim or emacs (or anything reasonable for crying out loud), but that seems too much to ask on OS X. Editor behaviour DOES change when changing LANG setting, but only for the worse: a unicode character's component bytes are treated as separate characters by the editors and when using a locale other than "C", they're also printed wrong, messing the display and cursor positioning hopelessly. Now for system claiming to be a MODERN UNIX, this should not be difficult. So, where's the catch? Could somebody outline how to do this relatively simple task right on OS X?
