A.J.Mechelynck wrote: [...]
If you leave 'encoding' set at Latin1, Vim won't be able to represent in memory any Unicode codepoints higher than U+00FF, even if you use ":e ++enc=utf-8 filename". See for instance the Russian and Arabic text in my front page, http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/index.htm . If you /don't/ use ++enc, then with 'fencs' empty (which is not the default) there will be no translation, and every codepoint above U+007F in a UTF-8 file will appear as two or more bytes of gibberish. For instance, "Raúl Núñez" would be shown as "Raúl Núñez" which is not very pretty to look at.
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Oops! That page plays a dirty trick: it sets your 'encoding' to UTF-8. To see the difference, download it on your computer, remove the modeline at line 3, and restart Vim.
Best regards, Tony.
