On 20/10/09 10:58, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > On Tue, October 20, 2009 1:25 am, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > >> As for using UTF-8 with BOM, I have no statistics on it about what >> other people do, but I found it to be (as the FAQ quoted above said) >> an excellent signature to mean that a file is in UTF-8. > > I had occasionally problems, when a plugin's helpfile has been > created with a bom by vimball, which triggered an error by the helptags > command and thus the documentation wasn't available. > > This was one of the reasons for me to avoid boms. Usually I can > tell vim which encoding to use, if necessary. Agreed, this is not always > possible and YMMV, obviously. > > regards, > Christian
This can conceivably be regarded as a bug in the vimball plugin, the :helptags command, or both; but as long as it persists, it can be worked around. It is an annoyance, certainly, but not what I would call "hitting the wall" as was said elsewhere in this thread. Best regards, Tony. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 164. You got out to buy software, instead of going out for a beer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
