On Jan 20, 10:03 pm, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a file which if read with the Windows-1252 encoding (cp1252in > Vim) has an en dash character (encoded as byte 150). When I load this > file in a Vim with enc=latin1, and leave fenc blank, I would expect to > see a "no character" block in place of the en dash. However, I see the > en dash as if I loaded with enc/fenc set tocp1252. > > If I set encoding to utf-8, and load the same file with default > fileencodings, it detects as latin1 and I see the "no character" glyph > as expected. If I do :e ++enc=cp1252, or if I modify my fileencodings > option to includecp1252instead of latin1, I see the en dash, again > as expected. > > Is this behavior intentional? It certainly could be considered > helpful, but it was very unexpected.
So, is this expected behavior? Are there special rules when Vim's encoding is an 8-bit one? -- 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
