On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 01:30:53PM +0100, Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumacher wrote:
> I'm writing some LaTeX documents whith mixed German and Russian,
> therefor I use UTF-8 encoding. 
> 
> Everything works fine, except the fact that Gvim isn't displaying the
> russian parts correct. All I see are strange characters instead of
> cyrillic. 
> 
> After googeling I only found hints to set the locale, but this seems
> to work on Linux only. So how can I configure Gvim to show the
> cyrillic characters?

What toolkit does you GVim use? It can be compiled to use Xaw or GTK2, at
least.

I tried Cyrillic in the GTK2 version and it works for me with
LC_CTYPE="cs_CZ.UTF-8", but not with non-UTF-8 locale.

Pavel