> I hope someone has an answer to your mystery See :help :map-alt-keys in particular, "Vim assumes that pressing the ALT key sets the 8th bit of a typed character".
An "i" with the eighth bit set is hex e9, é in unicode, and latin1, latin2, and so on to latin10. As to why, I can only imagine something historical, from a 7-bit ASCII past. Looks a kludge to me, but I'm not an adept in this stuff. Regards, John -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
