Strange shell (bash) behavior when started from vim

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Edit: Solved. See GitHub: amix/vimrc#204.

I often drop a shell out of my vim window by :!bash but I have two problems with it.

I can't use UTF8 for pipes
with QWERTZ layout, I can't use Umlaut keys like öäü, i.e. ö behaves like ALT-_

I think the problems are somehow related.

Is there anything I missed regarding both problems?

I've no idea where your problems come from but I wonder if using :!bash is actually a good thing: I think that :! is meant to execute a single command but not to start an interactive shell. If you really need to execute several commands in an external shell why don't you directly the external shell? — statox, Commented Mar 19, 2016 at 13:04
Can you give us more details please? For example, what is your OS or distribution (including version), your bash version and the output of vim --version? When you answer, we willl take it from there. — Alexandre Martins, Commented Mar 19, 2016 at 14:00
FYI. My system works perfectly and I just want to try and reproduce your problem. I use Ubuntu 14.04 with regular vim-gtk package with what is mostly the vimrc_example file that comes with vim. — Alexandre Martins, Commented Mar 19, 2016 at 14:02
@AlexandreMartins Huh, I'm using amix's vimrc. When removing it issue is gone, so I think it's a problem of amix's vimrc. Will open issue there :) — criztovyl, Commented May 14, 2016 at 14:01

criztovyl · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-15 15:27:47Z

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The Problem here is in the .vimrc I use, it overwrote my locale. So I commented that out and everything works fine again.

See the corresponding GitHub issue: amix/vimrc#204.

Thanks to @Carpetsmoker for pointing out an answer would be more sufficent than an edit of the question ^^

answered Jul 15, 2016 at 15:27

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