Tony Mechelynck wrote: > The French-language help includes a tags-fr. It works -- as long as I > don't want to install another helpfile in the same directory. Then > :helptags $VIM/vimfiles/doc gives an error on hebrew.frx which has a > different 'fileencoding' than the rest. The problem is that most of the > *.frx files are in 8-bit Latin1 (with âàçéêèëîïôûù but not œ) while > hebrew.frx is in UTF-8+BOM (with Hebrew letters in UTF-8), so even > removing the BOM doesn't clear the error: it's still Latin1 vs. UTF-8 > (even though all help *tags*, |references|, 'options' etc. within all > files are in 7-bit ASCII). Trying to run :helptags on that directory > (e.g. as part of :UseVimball) then truncates tags-fr to zero length. > > Bram: I believe the E670 message (at ex_cmds.c line 6398) and the > corresponding check are more a hinder than a help. > > Another possibility would be to convert the whole French help to UTF-8, > but then it would no more be readable by "tiny" "small" or "normal" > -multi_byte versions of Vim. Anyway the README-fr says this help is for > Vim 6.2.017, and yet it is the only language which enjoys "full" > translation of the Vim help. Maybe we should declare that help > translation is a fiasco for lack of adequate manpower?
What is your 'enc' option set to when you use the :helptags command? I believe it should work when it is utf-8, then the latin1 files can be converted from latin1 to utf-8 and the generated tags file is in utf-8. The digraph.txt file is also in latin1. -- A)bort, R)etry, B)ang it with a large hammer /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
