Mick wrote: > Hmm, I just checked a utf-8 file after I edited it and it says: > > :set encoding > encoding=latin1 > > I assume this means that it was changed from utf8 to latin1
No. To see what encoding a file has, you could use 'file'. Run 'file thefileyouedited', and it should say "UTF-8 Unicode text". When you open the file again with vim, it will say "[converted]" on the status line: converted from utf-8 to latin1. > (whatever this is . . . is it relevant to ISO-8859-1?) Latin1 is a synonym for ISO-8859-1. Because your LANG isn't set, the default is Latin1, as you could have learned by typing ':help enc' in vim. > Not sure I understand what all this means. Is my Vim > installation working as it should? You can edit any file you like, vim will auto-convert on read and write. > Do I have to change my locale? Depends on what you want. If new files should be UTF-8 encoded, then change your locale. Otherwise you're fine as you are. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
