Re: E474: Invalid argument: listchars=eol:¬,tab:>·,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:<,space:␣

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 01:34:46AM -0800, 童虎 wrote:

> I have a file `a.txt`.
> When I use root to edit this file `sudo vi a.txt`. Vim prompt:
>
> `E474: Invalid argument: listchars=eol:¬,tab:>·,trail:~,extends:>,precedes:<,space:␣`
>
> But when I user `vi a.txt` without `sudo`. All things right.
>
> I have tried this:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18321538/vim-error-e474-invalid-argument-listchars-tab-trail
>
> scriptencoding utf-8
> set encoding=utf-8
>
> It does nothing!
>
> Can you help me!!

It's probably that your listchars setting contains UTF-8 characters, but
your locale as root isn't a UTF-8 locale -- sudo isn't preserving it.

Danek

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