Hi Tony :)
* A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> >>Your problem lies in the relation between UTF-8, Latin1 and US-ASCII.
> >>Characters 0x00 to 0x7F are represented identically in all three,
> >>therefore if a file contains only 7-bit ASCII characters, it won't make
> >>any difference whether it is interpreted as US-ASCII, Latin1 or UTF-8 --
> >>the data will be the same, *represented the same way*, in all three cases.
> >
> > I know that, ucs-bom and utf-8 are tried before latin1 and utf-8
> >always succeeds for US-ASCII files :(((
>
> No need to frown: US-ASCII "is" UTF-8 (but the reciprocal is not always
> true): or if you prefer, a UTF-8 file containing only codepoints below
> U+0080 can be read correctly, with no errors or misreadings, by any program
> accepting US-ASCII.
Sorry, I'm afraid I didn't use the proper smiley O:) I wasn't
frowning, what I wanted to express was more in the lines of "how
unfortunate am I", or something like that. Sorry for the mistake...
> > A partial solution for me would be to force "latin1" when saving a
> >file, but then I take the risk of messing the encoding of a couple of
> >projects where I may add code which are utf-8 :((
> >
> > Probably my best bet is to map "save as latin1" and do this
> >manually.
>
> Rather than map ":w ++enc=latin1" I would map ":setlocal fenc=latin1",
> because with the latter (but not with the former) all saves of the file
> will be in latin1 until you ":quit" the file
Nice idea :)) Thanks a lot :))
> > BTW, and regarding your suggestion above, I just forgot to do it
> >back when I wrote my vimrc while reading the documentation. I missed the
> >prominent note, sorry O:))))
>
> As long as your vimrc includes only 7-bit ASCII, there's no problem. But in
> the particular case of your vimrc, you could add the following lines at
> top, do ":setlocal fenc=latin1", and (IIUC) it will always be _read_ as
> Latin1 in the future, because of the accented letters in your name:
Won't "scriptencoding" work? I have latin1 characters in my vimrc
and setting "encoding=utf8" now causes vim to spill an error when
reading it :((( I'm afraid I will have to keep it at the default value.
Thanks for all the help :)
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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