Using vim to edit Arabic text in a PuTTY console

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When using vim to edit Arabic in a PuTTY text console, the character rendering is not displayed correctly.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • PuTTY client running on Microsoft Windows

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