On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 02:26:36PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > editor on my planet.] > > The Vim defaults are such that most people can do their work without > additional settings. Since most people live on a planet where UTF-8 is > still the new kid on the block, when Vim detects a malformed UTF-8 > sequence it assumes the file is not UTF-8. It's probably latin1 or some
but it does this even in UTF-8 locale... most people for whom UTF-8 is alien do not have UTF-8 locale. It is reasonable to assume that if a user has UTF-8 locale, and vim encouters malformed UTF-8 sequence, the file is in fact broken UTF-8 file, and not in ISO-8859-1 encoding. (especially since most people who are living on ISO-8859-1 planet do not feel any need whatsoever to use anything resembling UTF-8, so they would not be using UTF-8 locale) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | 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/
