First, you've sent your question to a list discussing the pages on the wiki, not a Vim help list. You should have sent it to vim_...@googlegroups.com, as discussed here:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki:Community_Portal#Asking_questions I've included this list on my reply, you should respond there if you have any additional problems. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Edward Garbowski <e...@sabinmetal.com> wrote: > I am having an issue with opening a text file with no BOM. I have a > text file that opens fine in Notepad, but if I open it in VIM I just > get garbage. > > If I look at the hex code, there is no BOM in the beginning. If I put > a BOM in, it works. > > How can I make VIM work with no BOM on reading a file? Or is this a > bug of some kind? > > I am using version 7.3.46 > It sounds like your 'fileencodings' option is not set correctly. Probably it contains "ucs-bom" but not "utf-8". This is probably because either you've deliberately edited your 'fileencodings' option, or you've never set Vim up to use a multibyte 'encoding' option in the first place. See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode and the help references listed near the bottom of that tip, to get started. _______________________________________________ Vim-l mailing list Vim-l@wikia.com http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/vim-l
