peter juuls <peterjuuls <at> yahoo.es> writes: > BUT it has always been a mystery to me how to control > character sets used in vim .. Me too. In Spanish we use several accented letters and the ñ that's more or less like the problem of your's.
I edit old DOS programs with the console vim, named vim.exe and have in the _vimrc file the following: " Codepage IBM850 set encoding=cp850 This makes vim interpret the accented characters correctly. In the _gvimrc file I have: " encoding: latin1 = ISO8859 set encoding=latin1 wich should be OK for you too. When I open a DOS file with gvim I can do :set encoding=cp850 and all gibberish becomes what it should be, on screen. Upon saving, the file will be written with DOS encoding. Peter, this is all my knowledge and beyond. Maybe it's useful for you to start a research. Good luck! -- Juan Lanus TECNOSOL Argentina
