On 2010-03-27, Gustavo Caicedo wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 22:12, Patrick McCarty <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > It might depend on what version of Vim you are using, but I usually > > need to run > > > > :set fileencoding=utf-8 > > > > as well. That, along with Jon's suggestion, should solve your > > problem. > > Thank you; that works. One thing, though: After I do that all of the > special characters are garbled the next time that I open the file > and if I add another character and reencode, the previously encoded > characters are changed. How can I go back to the previous (ascii?) > state? I tried ":set encoding=ascii" but it doesn't seem to work.
I see what you mean. Vim doesn't behave very well in this sort of situation. It sounds like you are using a non-UTF-8 locale. If you switch to using a UTF-8 locale, Vim will correctly use UTF-8 for its default file encoding. Here is my locale: $ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 To see which locales you have available, run this command: $ locale -a Then you can set LANG to whichever locale is suitable for you. Thanks, Patrick _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
