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I'm using:
Neovim v0.4.4
Mac v10.13.6
iTerm2
When I copy non English text, for example 中文（简体） and paste it to neovim, it become ????
The same thing happens to when I copy it from neovim and paste into any other place.
How can I fix this?
set encoding gives encoding=utf-8.
Finally I found the solution for this.
It was because of the locale setting of my terminal, so I exported these variables in my .zshrc (maybe you can put it into .profile, if you're not using ZSH).
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG="UTF-8"
LC_ALL should be avoided, since it's stronger than all the other LC_* settings and it will override them when they're used. (Many scripts use something like LC_COLLATE=C sort or similar and this LC_ALL setting will break them. Setting LANG is usually enough, but you should set it with a language and not only an encoding. export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 is the correct setting here.
– filbranden♦
Nov 28 '20 at 15:39
~/.i18n file, without the export statement, only the LANG=en_US.UTF-8 part. These distributions will have this setting work regardless of which shell is in use (bash, zsh, etc.)
– filbranden♦
Nov 28 '20 at 15:41
encodingoption support these characters? That’s a likely culprit – D. Ben Knoble♦ Oct 29 '20 at 12:44encodinginfo into the description. – Lai32290 Oct 29 '20 at 12:48:languageand:!locale, but knowing you're in utf-8 is a start. The next step is to find out if utf-8 supports those characters, and whether or not the exact ones you're coping are encoded in utf-8. Unfortunately, I'm not much help there. – D. Ben Knoble♦ Oct 29 '20 at 13:17LC_ALLandLANG(there are several others) control encoding assumptions, output formats, sort order, etc. of well-written programs. Generally the correct think to do is to configure your terminal emulator or system to set them appropriately. e.g., my Macbook is in French; when I launch Terminal.app, it sets all the variables automatically. But alacritty doesn't, so I have to add them to my alacritty config. (...) – D. Ben Knoble♦ Oct 29 '20 at 13:57