Be sure to do a look at the man page for encoding in vim - it's nowhere near as straight forward as you might expect, and there are some strange special cases you might be running into where one encoding will override others at unexpected times.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:27 AM, björn <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2009/9/30 Doris Wagner: > > > > hi list, > > > > I am using vim from the terminal (mac os 10.5); I often use german > > umlauts; > > > > now, when I write the umlaut ö with another editor, in my case with > > texshop, and open the file with vim, there ist no ö displayed, but > > <9a>; > > apparently, something with the encoding is wrong; > > > > my .vimrc-settings are as in > > > > http://hoepfl.de/articles/2007/01/vimderbar.html > > > > recommended, that is: > > > > set encoding=utf-8 > > set fileencoding= > > setglobal fileencoding=utf-8 > > set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1 set termencoding=latin1 > > > > > > so can anyone help me? > > Hi Doris, > > It seems that texshop is not using UTF-8 so either tell it to use > UTF-8 or set the proper file encoding in Vim. I don't know which is > the correct one though...maybe somebody else on the list knows, or ask > on vim_use. > > Björn > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
