Zhaojun WU wrote:
Hi, Tony,
Thanks for you reply.
I've already tried the xxd solution, but it converts all of the
characters into hex values, it is hard to locate a particular
character's value. It might be possible to copy this character out to
a new window and use ":%!xxd" to check its hex value, but it takes two
steps with an additional window. It is acceptable but a little bit
inconvenient.
(Is there any shortcut (i mean key-combination or function) for these
steps?)
[...]
As long as 'encoding' is set to UTF-8, there is no easy way to get the cp936
value of a given character in the buffer. It would be possible to write the
character to a cp936-encoded file and convert that to hex; once the required
function or command has been written in vimscript, you can map them to a key.
I'm not trying, but here are the steps I can think of:
1) (This is the big one) Write a function to create a file (probably with the
help of "tempname()") containing a string (given as parameter) in a given
'fileencoding' (given as another parameter), apply xxd to that file, and
":echo" the result (using ":echo system(xxd tempfilename)". Conversion
failures should be handled somehow.
2) (optional) Write a command or commands to invoke that function.
3) Map the invocation to a key.
Best regards,
Tony.
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