[vim] show unicode character for tabs and line endings

February 23, 2012 / Kyle Sun / 0 Comments

I came across this config long time ago but never successfully set that up on company dev servers.

set listchars=tab:▸\ ,eol:¬

It always shows something like this:

set listchars=tab:?~V?\ ,eol:?

Until i saw this post on server fault, i realized it could be the same locale issue. Simply set the locale to en_US.utf8 solves the problem.

export LANG=en_US.utf8