Vim provides extra space for each accented character

Question

Whenever I type an accented character in vim, for example, for example: é , it adds extra space, like é<space> .

Small gif animation that illustrates the problem: Link here . Please note that when recording on the screen, I do not press anything on the space bar, but still they appear.

This is the same as described in this SO question and in the superuser question too, but the solution proposed for both - set encoding=utf-8 does not work for me. I posted this in both .vimrc and the running session, and no one worked.

In MacVim, which set encoding? also outputs encoding=utf-8 , this problem does not occur.

I installed vim with brew , here is its info command:

 vim: stable 7.4.488, HEAD http://www.vim.org/ Conflicts with: ex-vi /usr/local/Cellar/vim/7.4.488 (1600 files, 26M) * Built from source with: --override-system-vi From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/vim.rb ==> Dependencies Optional: lua ✔, luajit ✔ ==> Options --disable-nls Build vim without National Language Support (translated messages, keymaps) --override-system-vi Override system vi --with-client-server Enable client/server mode --with-lua Build vim with lua support --with-luajit Build with luajit support --with-mzscheme Build vim with mzscheme support --with-python3 Build vim with python3 instead of python[2] support --with-tcl Build vim with tcl support --without-perl Build vim without perl support --without-python Build vim without python support --without-ruby Build vim without ruby support --HEAD Install HEAD version 

And :version information here:

 :version VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jan 5 2015 21:44:59) MacOS X (unix) version Included patches: 1-258 Compiled by Homebrew Huge version with MacVim GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): +acl +cmdline_info +emacs_tags -gettext +lua +mouse_urxvt +profile +statusline +transparency -X11 +arabic +comments +eval -hangul_input +menu +mouse_xterm +python -sun_workshop +user_commands -xfontset +autocmd +conceal +ex_extra +iconv +mksession +multi_byte -python3 +syntax +vertsplit +xim +balloon_eval +cryptv +extra_search +insert_expand +modify_fname +multi_lang +quickfix +tag_binary +virtualedit -xsmp +browse +cscope +farsi +jumplist +mouse -mzscheme +reltime +tag_old_static +visual -xterm_clipboard ++builtin_terms +cursorbind +file_in_path +keymap +mouseshape +netbeans_intg +rightleft -tag_any_white +visualextra -xterm_save +byte_offset +cursorshape +find_in_path +langmap +mouse_dec +odbeditor +ruby +tcl +viminfo -xpm +cindent +dialog_con_gui +float +libcall -mouse_gpm +path_extra +scrollbind +terminfo +vreplace +clientserver +diff +folding +linebreak -mouse_jsbterm +perl +signs +termresponse +wildignore +clipboard +digraphs -footer +lispindent +mouse_netterm +persistent_undo +smartindent +textobjects +wildmenu +cmdline_compl +dnd +fork() +listcmds +mouse_sgr +postscript -sniff +title +windows +cmdline_hist -ebcdic +fullscreen +localmap -mouse_sysmouse +printer +startuptime +toolbar +writebackup system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc" user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc" 2nd user vimrc file: "~/.vim/vimrc" user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc" system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc" user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc" 2nd user gvimrc file: "~/.vim/gvimrc" system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim" fall-back for $VIM: "/Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim" Compilation: clang -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_MACVIM -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -pipe -DMACOS_X_UNIX -I/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Ve rsions/2.7/include/python2.7 -I/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -dynamic -I/usr/local/inclu de -I/usr/local/opt/sqlite/include -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Headers -D _REENTRANT=1 -D_THREAD_SAFE=1 -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE=1 Linking: clang -L. -L/usr/local/lib -L. -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.9/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/config -lpython2.7 -framework Core Foundation -L/usr/local/lib -o Vim -framework Cocoa -framework Carbon -lm -lncurses -liconv -framework Cocoa -pagezero_size 10000 -image_base 100000000 -L/usr/local/lib -llu ajit-5.1 -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib -L/System/Library/Perl/5.16/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE -lperl -framework Python -F/System/Library/Frameworks -framework Tcl -frame work CoreFoundation -framework Ruby 

And my language:

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

Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

None of the comment suggestions worked for me, so I continued to delve into this issue on my own. In the end, it's just a matter of unsetting iTerm.