How does vim decide what encoding(s) to use when it opens an
existing file?
I ask this because in the past, with text files, it seems to
have "just worked", and with C++ files and shell scripts, it
never mattered, since they only contained ASCII. However, I've
now got some C++ files which have French (with accents) in their
comments. The standard header that we use (copyright, etc.) is
in English, as is all of the program text itself, which means
that there is a large block of pure ASCII at the start. I'm
gradually converting everything from Latin 1 to UTF-8, however;
I use vim for the conversion (read, change fileencoding,
rewrite), which works fine, but the next time I read the file,
vim still treats it as if it were Latin 1 unless I manually
change encoding (and fileencoding?)
As far as I can tell, I've nothing in any of my configuration
files which specify an encoding.
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