On 02/05/10 19:37, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
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.
I did it in gvim (Huge) for GTK2/Gnome2, with 'encoding' set to UTF-8
(my system locale is en_US.UTF-8, and my vimrc sets 'enc' to "utf-8"
within an if clause: if has('multi_byte') | if &enc !~? '^u' | etc.). It
truncated tags-fr to zero-length with error E670. I also have the
following at the end of the vimrc section where I set 'enc' to UTF-8:
set fencs=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
setg bomb fenc=utf-8
The file hebrew.frx (mentioned in the E670 error message) is distributed
with a BOM but even after ":setl nobomb | x" I still got the error on a
subsequent :helptags run (in the same gvim session).
Yes, digraph.txt is also in 8-bit Latin1, and arabic.txt is in UTF-8 but
without BOM, and its first multibyte codepoint is at line 282. English
hebrew.txt (I don't have *.frx anymore, see below), is also in UTF-8
without BOM, with the first multibyte codepoint at line 85.
For some reason, "make install" which runs "make installruntime" which
runs "make installrtbase" which runs "cd ../runtime/doc && make vimtags"
which runs 'vim -u NONE -esX -c "helptags ++t ." -c quit', never gives
me that error. Maybe it's the BOM after all.
I finally did (before my OP actually)
:!rm -vf tags-fr *.frx
removing the whole French-language help.
Best regards,
Tony.
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