Latin Capital Letter Thorn

Question

I want to insert the unicode character Thorn Þ into my document.

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00de/index.htm

The character seems to be inserted when I type

i<C-v>u00DE<esc>

But is displayed as the replacement character:

�

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fffd/index.htm

I assume this is because there is no glyph that vim can map to the unicode character. I am not sure how to proceed to update vim to get that character displayed correctly.

Note: This is different from the question marked as duplicate in that I already insert the correct unicode character. The problem is that it is not displayed correctly.

What do you get when you do :set enc? ? Also, are you using console vim or gvim? When I use gvim and :set enc=utf8 it works fine for me. — DJMcMayhem, Jun 06 '16 at 23:17
Possible duplicate of How can a character be inserted during an edit session by its Unicode numeric value? — SibiCoder, Jun 07 '16 at 03:25
Assuming Thorn is not outside the range of printable characters in the current encoding, you can (and probably should) use digraphs to insert special characters. See :h digraphs-use. The digraph for capital Thorn is TH. — Sato Katsura, Jun 07 '16 at 07:10

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 07 '16 at 20:51

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The answer was posted in the comments by @DJ McMayhem.

:set enc?
latin-1

So by changing it to utf-8 the text becomes readable.

:set enc=utf-8

answered Jun 07 '16 at 20:51

Martin York

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Aww, drat, I shoulda posted that as an answer. :P – DJMcMayhem Jun 07 '16 at 22:00

Latin Capital Letter Thorn

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