On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Benjamin Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > A while back on vim_dev, there was a suggestion for TOhtml to use the > 'fencoding' of the source buffer for the HTML encoding of the > generated file. > > This thread discusses it, and I eventually included an initial beta > version that does exactly this: > > http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/c41f797237e46f45 > > Also included is detection of the proper 'fileencoding' from the > user-specified HTML encoding, if given. > > I have not received any feedback on the initial release, but I have > acted on my musings and created a second beta version that removes > specific encodings from the automatic detection, which are not > supported on all 5 major browsers, according to > http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Web_Encodings. > > Please try it out and send me any comments! See attached patch against > the current latest Vim (Mercurial changeset fae782ef63dd), or go to > http://code.google.com/p/vim-2html-test/downloads/list for the fully > patched files. Most users should not notice any differences, unless > they had specific encoding-related problems in the past, in which case > hopefully the updates solve more problems than they create. > > One thing in particular I'd like to know, is it worthwhile to provide > platform-specific code, that adds additional encodings based on your > system? For example, Windows users might like windows-1252 detected > automatically by default. Is there a good way to figure out what the > supported encodings are for a given system? Maybe, code like this > would be better as a separately distributed plugin, since most users > can probably just use UTF-8 with no problems. >
Oops, found one bug, where converting to UTF-8 for all Unicode encodings did not also convert the fencoding. Here's an updated patch. New fully-patched files also have been uploaded as indicated above. I'll probably give it about another week to collect comments before submitting to Bram if there are no issues. -- 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
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