Edward L. Fox wrote: > On 8/12/06, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > But gvim doesn't support an encoding named 'gbk'. If the system > > > encoding is 'gbk', the menu and toolbar get malformed. > > > > What do you mean by "system encoding"? How does Vim see this? > > I meant the $LANG variable. > > GBK is right an alias of cp936, so it is proper to add this alias > entry into mbyte.c. But the situation with GB18030 was much more > complicated and the current version of gvim is not able to handle it > correctly. About GB18030 there is another long and not-so-funny but > ridiculous story. If you like, I can tell you the detailed GOSSIP > later... > > Because over 99% part of GB18030 and GBK is the same, and the > remaining part is too difficult to handle, I want to set GB18030 as > another alias of cp936. Do you think it is OK?
I can alias gbk and gb18030 to cp936. But does setting 'encoding' to cp936 really work on a non-Windows system? If not then the alias won't help. > > [...] > > > > You may have uncovered a bug that went unnoticed so far. Please try to > > discover what causes this problem. I can't guess why the last character > > is messed up, looks strange. > > In fact this bug was noticed years before. But most of the Chinese > people decided to tolerate this situation. Anyway, I'm going to work > on~ Yeah, I have noticed that Asian people don't often report problems. Fixing them would still be nice! -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org ///
