conceal function not working in tmux

Question

Version: vim 8.1

Problem: Latex objects like \int, ^, \alpha, \beta, etc, all get replaced by _ in tmux when using conceallevel=1,2.

Expected: correct concealment, as it happens in normal terminal, outside tmux. For example \int gets replaced by integral sign.

Terminal: Termite

Shell: zsh; new to it

Tried: I thought this was related to zsh somehow because the theme I was also got ruined in tmux; I tried a bunch of different themes, tried changing the font of termite to powerline supported ones, but got nothing.

Answer 1

If you don't want to have an alias for tmux -u, you can make sure LANG, LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE contains a UTF-8 locale because tmux will use them to automatically detect UTF-8.

Answer 2

Correction

tmux(){
/path/to/tmux -u "$@"
}

is more appropriate; the previous answer would not allow you to use tmux ls for example.

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The problem was utf8 encoding. By default tmux doesn't use it, and this encoding is necessary to get these LaTeX symbols and several other symbols in zsh theme to appear.

calling tmux -u instead of tmux fixed it. detach tmux For a general solution you can define in your .zshrc/.bashrc

tmux(){
/path/to/tmux -u
}

(usually the path will be /usr/bin/tmux) and then source it.