Hi Tony,
* A.J.Mechelynck on Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 09:57:40 +0200:
> Christian Ebert wrote:
>> Is it possible to have eg. iso-8859-1 encoded words/passages in
>> an otherwise utf-8 encoded file? I mean, w/o automatic
without
>> conversion, and I don't need the iso passages displayed in a
>> readable way, but so I can still write the file in utf-8 w/o
>> changing the "invalid" iso-8859-1 chars?
>>
>> Hm, hope I made myself clear.
Hm, I probably didn't.
<snip detailed explanation with bleeding heart ;)>
> Corollary of the conclusion:
>
> #1.
> cat file1.utf8.txt file2.latin1.txt file3.utf8.txt > file99.utf8.txt
>
> will produce invalid output unless the Latin1 input file is actually 7-bit
> US-ASCII. This is not a limitation of the "cat" program (which inherently
> never translates anything) but a false manoeuver on the part of the user.
Hm, I want illegal stuff, hehe.
> #2.
> gvim
> :if &tenc == "" | let &tenc = &enc | endif
> :set enc=utf-8 fencs=utf-bom,utf-8,latin1
ucs-bom
> :e ++enc=utf-8 file1.utf8.txt
> :$r ++enc=latin1 file2.latin1.txt
> :$r ++enc=utf-8 file3.utf-8.txt
> :saveas file99.utf8.txt
Then file99.utf8.txt is the same as the one produced with the
cat command. Which is actually what I want.
*But*:
Vim insists on converting the displayed text to latin1. What I
want is to have the contents displayed in utf-8 with a few
illegal characters in latin1.
Now I get:
#v+
Vögel <- utf-8
Vögel <- latin1
#v-
because Vim automatically converts to latin1. Whereas I'd like to
have it the other way round: with "Vögel" displayed as garbage,
but I can continue editing the file in _utf-8_.
Is this possible in *G*vim? (I don't have the GUI installed)
Example snippet from a fictitious LaTeX-file to show the purpose
(or to increase confusion):
#v+
The main part of the file is in utf-8 encoding and contains
non-ascii characters.
Then, I want to typeset, say, one word in \emph{spaced} small
caps. The \LaTeX-package that does this, is not capable to parse
utf-8 input, so this single word has to be in latin1 in case it
contains non-ascii chars:
\begingroup\inputencoding{latin1}
\caps{V?gel}
\endgroup
to use the above example (with ``?'' for garbage).
\caps{V\"ogel} gives orthographically correct output but I lose
the kerning of the font.
The above example \emph{works,} but the main part of the file is
displayed in ``disected'' utf-chars.
Is it possible to have this the other way round without automatic
conversion to latin1?
#v-
c
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