Swedish characters (åäö) in Vim & Nano

Question

When I'm using Vim or Nano in Mac OS X Lion, the Swedish characters "ÅÄÖ" show up as "åäö". It works fine in Terminal.

I've added this line to my .vimrc:

set encoding=utf8

If I run locale in Terminal it shows:

LANG="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I found the solution here: see thread

"The solution was to uncheck the "Escape non-ASCII input" checkbox in the Advanced tab of the Terminal.app settings."

Thanks Idigas and progo for your time!

Answer 2

Could be your termencoding needs to be set properly.