Hi, Thanks you both for your tips.
> fencs=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1 The problem with that is, as you (pansz) explained, is that this defaults to utf8 for new files. In the past I sometimes ended up with utf8 encoded files that caused some trouble when editing/processing with non-unicode aware programs/scripts. Unfortunately, it isn't possible to set fencs to fencs=ucs-bom,latin1,utf-8 since utf8 files will never be recognized even though (in my case) the presence of a multi byte lead character is a safe indicator the file isn't in latin1. > You can use an autocmd for that directory, but not a modeline. Well, I can set enc from BufRead -- I previously tried to use BufReadPre which didn't work. Unfortunately, setting enc to utf8 has some side effects, which is why I'd like to be able to manually set fenc when reading a file -- regardless of the value of fencs. This isn't possible it seems. Anyway, I get your message that I should consider moving to utf8. Regards, Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
