On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:22 PM, esquifit <[email protected]> wrote: > > NOTE: Changing this option will not change the encoding of the > existing text in Vim. It may cause non-ASCII text to become invalid. > > This sentence is somewhat obscure. If I change 'encoding' after having > loading a buffer, it effectively causes 'some non-ASCII text to become > invalid'. What does then the statement mean, that 'this option will > not change the encoding of the existing text in VIm'?
Changing encoding at runtime from latin1 to UTF-8 wouldn't cause you to lose any text. However, if you're editing Egyption Hieroglyphs / Japanese Kana, then you might lose text if you change encoding from UTF-8 to latin1 at runtime. Hope this helps, Kyungjoon -- 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
