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.

What GVim are you using? editors/vim-gtk2 from pkgsrc? If not, try
that instead. If a Gtk+ 2.x program doesn't show the expected
characters, the only likely explanation is missing fonts.

-- 
Christian