"A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tobias Herp wrote:
> > I' struggling for quite a while now to get the character encoding right;
>
> What does your Vim say on this file in reply to
>
> :verbose set enc? fenc? fencs?
>
> ?
encoding=latin1
fileencoding=
fileencodings=ucs-bom
> -- To set 'fileencoding' to something else than what Vim would normally
> expect, use the ++enc option to :edit, see ":help ++opt".
Doing a ":e ++enc=utf8 %" helped, thanks!
When opening the file from the commandline, gvim "+set enc=utf8" {filename}
works (tested on Windows)
> -- To force recognition of a file as Unicode (e.g., UTF-8), use
> ":setlocal bomb" on it; then check that 'fileencoding' is setlocal'ed to
> some Unicode encoding (such as utf-8) and save.
This didn't work for me.
> -- To force recognition of a file as not UTF-8 but Latin1 (assuming
> 'fileencodings' [plural] is set to "ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1"), put a number
> of upper-ASCII bytes (bytes >127) near the beginning, maybe in a
> comment. If the file is a text file, you can also use it as "weird
> underlining" (e.g. underline your main title with a row of ££££
> (pounds
> sterling) or of Danish ØØØØ (slashed O's); then ":setlocal
> fenc=latin1"
> and save. The following works well in one of my text files:
>
> -----------------------------------------
> # zim: set fenc=latin1 nomod : £££££µµµµµ
> # "zim" (not "vim") above is intentional
> -----------------------------------------
I didn't understand this "dirty little trick" completely. Is the "set
fenc=latin1 nomod" of any relevance, then, except as a reminder?
Anyway, I finally inserted a line
set fencs=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
into my _vimrc file, and everything seams to work fine now. Thanks a lot!
--
Tobias
