On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:16:58AM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Radovan Garabik wrote: > > > > > point is, latin1 is not the only encoding you are going to encounter > > (and way too many users are likely to encounter _other_ default > > encodings), and the conversion should be done manually off the editor. > > Automatic conversions are evil. > > I suggest you stay on your UTF-8-only planet (without a history), you > clearly won't like the planet most other people are on (with a history > of various files laying around). >
I do have a long history in the world of computing, with corresponding amount of old files in various encodings lying on my disk. Some of them are even in ISO-8859-1. I just do not like when vim attempts automatic conversion when editing these files. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
