On 24/05/11 22:51, Ven Tadipatri wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Ben Fritz<[email protected]> wrote:
Since there are two bytes being displayed I'm going to guess you're
editing a UTF-8 encoded file with your encoding set to the default 8-
bit encoding for your system (probably latin1).
I'm actually editing the output of running maven, so maybe it wrote it
out in UTF-8 format.
You will need to set at least two options to let this work correctly:
'encoding'
'fileencodings'
When I type :set encoding? it says "option not supported". Maybe my
version of Vim wasn't built with unicode support?
If you get that, the probable reason is indeed that you have no
miltibyte support.
How do I check if I have multi-byte support? Is there some easy way to
add it if it's not there, or do I have to rebuild vim?
:echo has('multi_byte')
zero means No, anything else (usually 1) means Yes
Also, in the output of ":version", you'll see -multi_byte if you don't
have it, +multi_byte or +multi_byte_ime or +multi_byte_ime/dyn if you do.
Now how to get a Vim executable with multibyte support? That depends on
your OS.
For Windows, browse to http://sourceforge.net/projects/cream/files/ and
get the latest installer under "Vim", it's a recent distribution with
console and GUI Vim, all runtime files updated to the date the installer
was built, and the corresponding "Release notes" are the output of the
:version command from the GUI, with a few additional blank lines for
legibility.
On most Linux distributions, there are several Vim packages that you can
install. How they are named depends on your distribution: for instance,
with my openSUSE Linux you should install the packages vim-base and
vim-data plus at least one of vim, vim-enhanced and gvim; a number of
optional plugins are also available. In general, if (like here) three
executables are provided, they are usually a "tiny" bare-bones version
with no expression evaluation and no syntax highlighting, a console
version with mostly everything except X11 support and GUI, and a
full-fledged GUI which can also work in Console mode.
You can also compile your own Vim, see
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Building_Vim
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_the_Vim_source_with_Mercurial
http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compunix.htm
On the Mac, I recommend the macvim distribution; see
http://vim.sourceforge.net/download.php#mac
Thanks,
Ven
HTH,
Tony.
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