Icons aren't rendered when vifm is invoked from vim about vifm.vim HOT 3 CLOSED

Hello,

The picture looks like UTF-8 sequences were interpreted as something else, therefore I suspect it might be encoding/locale issues. You can try comparing locales inside Vim's terminal and in a regular terminal as well as Vim's settings related to encoding.

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I still wonder how vifm outside of vim managed to interprete the icons correctly then in the first place.

The issue was probably with Vim re-encoding characters. Terminal understands it if Vifm prints them as is, but Vim in the middle transformed them somehow.

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Thanks for helping me out here, even though I was looking at the wrong place for a solution.
Indeed locale/encoding was the problem here.
My terminal env:

❯ locale
LANG=""
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_CTYPE="UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_ALL=

I had to explicitly set LC_ALL and LANG in my shell or terminal config to fix it.
I still wonder how vifm outside of vim managed to interprete the icons correctly then in the first place.

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