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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.

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  • Not sure if this will fix your problem, but try this. – Tumbler41 Jun 6 '16 at 22:08
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    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 6 '16 at 23:17
  • Possible duplicate of How can a character be inserted during an edit session by its Unicode numeric value? – SibiCoder Jun 7 '16 at 3:25
  • 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 7 '16 at 7:10
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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
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    Aww, drat, I shoulda posted that as an answer. :P – DJMcMayhem♦ Jun 7 '16 at 22:00

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