Cesar Romani wrote:
If I have a file with a chinese file name, f.e. 感情包袱.txt
It won’t open but it throws the message: E303: Unable to open swap file for
“????.txt”, recovery impossible
Instead with notepad I can open the file.
Many thanks in advance,
Andalou
Is your Vim version compiled with +multi_byte ? (:echo has("multi_byte")
should return 1). The multi-byte feature is also mentioned in the
":version" text as one of +multi_byte, +multi_byte_ime or
+multi_byte_ime/dyn
If yes, check near the bottom of the :version text the name of the
compiler: Vim binaries compiled with BCC32 have been notorious in the
past for bad support of multi-byte characters, especially in filenames;
IIUC, other compilers such as gcc and (don't remember the compiler
executable name) MS Visual C have less problems in that respect. (I
could be wrong though; I don't use non-Latin1 filenames and only very
rarely non-7-bit-ASCII ones.)
If has("multi_byte") is nonzero and it wasn't compiled with BCC32 then I
don't know what it is -- maybe a bug. In this case, a makeshift
workaround (until Bram fixes it) would be to rename the file back and
forth to something with only 7-bit ASCII in the name.
Normally, E303 means the swapfile can't be opened; but you should still
be able to edit the file itself, unless it is very large. But you won't
get a recovery option if Vim crashes, so don't forget to save your work
extra often.
Oh, and you are using a recent version of Vim aren't you? A year or two
ago Vim just couldn't handle filenames with multibyte characters in
them, but I thought that bug had been fixed.
Best regards,
Tony.
