Hi folks,
Sorry for ressurecting this somewhat old thread, but I feel like I owe
you guys some feedback.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Tom Link <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The text contains some latin characters like á é í ó ú etc, and all
>> these show up in vim (in linux) as their hex codes (for example, á
>> appears as <e1>)
>
>> :set encoding?
>> utf-8
>
> The string from windows is probably encoded in the respective windows
> codepage. You could try to use iconv() to convert the string before
> pasting it in a instance of vim where enc is utf8.

Thanks Tom!
I used xclipboard to save the text to a file and when I opened it with
vim it was all good.

Also, interestingly enough, "file -bi myfile" yields "text/html; charset=utf-8"


On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wonder, since 'ga' shows both the manually typed as well as the
> pasted characters as being the same, whether a simple :w | e would
> "solve" the problem.

Yes it does, and it is my favorite method, since it doesn't require
any third party software.

Thank you all for your help!

Vitor

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