On 22.05.11 11:55, Ben Fritz wrote: > On May 22, 6:00 am, Christian Brabandt <[email protected]> wrote: > > or you can force Vim to save it in utf-8 > > encoding, by issuing :w ++enc=utf8 filename. > > This is true, but you can also do a > > :setlocal fileencoding=utf-8
Thank you both! I've also been irritated by occasional write failure due to conversion error, after pasting text to vim. A quick overwrite of the offending characters in vim has always cured the problem. Yesterday it was a weird minus sign. I see now that the file is latin1. Presumably the old and new encodings sync after setting fileencoding=utf-8, so I wouldn't still have two kinds of '-' ? (I have no idea how many different minus signs and hyphens are included amongst utf-8 multibyte characters.) Erik -- Forum moderator: Did you take the [End of the world on 21.05.11] doomsday prediction seriously? Contributor: Bugger, now I have to go to work tomorrow. - Seen on ABC website on 22.05.11 -- 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
