On 20/07/11 01:03, Linda W wrote:
John Trammell wrote:
fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-16le,utf-8,default,latin1
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That does it!...thanks!...
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I Prematurely spoke, since it worked wtih utf-16le, but I later found
that I couldn't read normal utf-8 files! So...it really didn't.
Yeah, usually I leave it at something not very different from the
default, in my case I use
:set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
and when I need to edit something in some "outlandish" encoding, I use
++enc (e.g. ++enc=utf-16le or ++enc=Windows-1252 or whatever)
immediately after the command name (and before the filename). The
relevant help subject is
:help ++opt
The only solution (gonna have to remember this -- maybe a macro
in my vimrc!)
You can always leave fileencodings as-is, and use :e ++enc=utf-16le to
work around the problem without messing with options.
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Didn't know about that one...and now, probably won't remember it cuz I
won't need it for a real long time (until I run into some other weird
format), and by
then...I'll ...well maybe I'll remember it.... :-).... (but I wouldn't
promise!)
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Gonna have to remember it, it's the only one that works!
(Unless one has some fileencodings order that would work...but seems like
there are few illegal sequences to detect, either under utf-16le, or
utf-8).
You might try :set fencs=ucs-bom,utf-8,utf-16le,latin1
which should work better than with UTF-16le before UTF-8, because UTF-8
has very strict rules about which byte sequences are acceptable, so it
is extremely unlikely bordering on impossible that you'll ever find a
nonzero-length UTF-16 file (in any endianness) which contains from start
to end no single byte sequence which is invalid for UTF-8. However the
danger with this setting is that Vim might misdetect latin1 files,
thinking that they are in UTF-16.
Just wanted to give anyone an update, as I returned to this string to
'remember'
the ":e ++enc=utf-16le", when I found I needed it again (so soon).
so time to add it to some vimrc macro or comment...
linda
Best regards,
Tony.
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