I need a way to set utf-8 encoding only for a particular file, on opening it.
I'm using gvim 7.3 on Windows. I have the following situation regarding locale and languages: 1) The OS language is English 2) The Windows LANG environment variable is set to DE (because I live in Germany). 3) The gvim 'installation language' is German. With this I mean that the menus are in German. 4) My vim locale is English (that is, my _vimrc contains 'lang english') These settings are fine for most purposes. However, I also have a special file in which I'm collecting text lines in Japanese. The text in the file is not maintained manually but is being written to by another application. A little trial and error shows that, when making the following settings *after* the file has been opened for reading, the Japanese text is correctly displayed: set encoding=utf-8 set guifont:MS_Mincho:h10:cSHIFTJIS However, this has the undesirable collateral effect that it does not only affect the buffer with this particular Japanese text but all open and future buffers. I tried 'fileencoding', which didn't work. From the documentation I kind of understand that 'fileencoding' only affects user input after the variable was set, which in my case is useless. I don't care user input, I just want the text to show in the correct encoding (utf-8). The 'on opening' part can be achieved with an autocommand (I used to use a modeline until 7.2, but setting encoding from a modeline seems to be forbidden from 7.3). Does anybody know how to handle this? Thank you e. -- 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
