Hi Tony :)
* A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> DervishD wrote:
> >>":scriptencoding" is used to tell Vim's sourcing engine in which
> >>'fileencoding' the script was written. There are two cases where it is
> >>not necessary:
> >>- the same as 'encoding', or
> >>- UTF-8 with BOM.
> >>IOW, yes, if you set 'encoding' to UTF-8 you may have to also issue
> >>":scriptencoding latin1".
> >
> > I have this line as the first line of my "options.vim", but it
> >doesn't seem to work. Probably because I do the following: my /etc/vimrc
> >sources /etc/vim/options.vim, which is the problematic script and the
> >only one that has "scriptencoding" on it. Probably when vim is parsing
> >the file, it already has decided that the rc files are utf-8, since
> >/etc/vimrc has no latin1 characters on it.
>
> ":scriptencoding" applies no farther than the end of the current script.
And does it affect sourced scripts or should I put that line in all
scripts?
> OK, let's try the opposite: edit options.vim, remove the sriptencoding
> statement, then save it with
>
> :setlocal bomb fenc=utf-8
> :x
>
> Then restart Vim and see if it works.
No, it doesn't work, but the strange thing is that vim barfs *only*
with 'showbreak'. I have latin1 (well, utf-8 now) characters in the
script, namely in 'foldtext' and 'listchars' at least, and they are
processed correctly. Maybe the codes I'm using are considered printable
in latin1 and nonprintable in utf8?
Oops, I think I know what's happening. I don't have an utf8 locale,
and I don't mean active, I mean *installed*, so if vim is trying to use
an utf-8 locale to see if a character is printable or not, it won't work
unless vim itself knows if some character is printable or not under
utf8. That's why the error is E595 and only shows with 'showbreak'. Vim
is considering the division sign and the left guillemot non printable
under utf8 encoding (which, BTW, is not right). Probably if I install an
utf8 locale, things will work OK. By now I'll leave 'encoding' as
default, 'fenc' and 'fencs' empty and will set utf-8 by hand when needed
(which is not very frequently for me).
Problem solved! Thanks a lot for everything, Tony :)
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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