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Troubleshooting on Linux
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I cant see any fancy symbols, whats wrong?
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* Make sure that youve configured gvim or your terminal emulator to use
a patched font.
* You need to set your ``LANG`` and ``LC_*`` environment variables to
a UTF-8 locale (e.g. ``LANG=en_US.utf8``). Consult your Linux distros
documentation for information about setting these variables correctly.
* Make sure that vim is compiled with the ``--with-features=big`` flag.
* If youre using rxvt-unicode make sure that its compiled with the
``--enable-unicode3`` flag.
* If youre using xterm make sure you have told it to work with unicode. You may
need ``-u8`` command-line argument, ``uxterm`` shell wrapper that is usually
shipped with xterm for this or ``xterm*utf8`` property set to ``1`` or ``2``
in ``~/.Xresources`` (applied with ``xrdb``). Note that in case ``uxterm`` is
used configuration is done via ``uxterm*…`` properties and not ``xterm*…``.
In any case the only absolute requirement is launching xterm with UTF-8
locale.
The fancy symbols look a bit blurry or “off”!
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* Make sure that you have patched all variants of your font (i.e. both the
regular and the bold font files).