On Friday, May 18, 2012 4:15:45 PM UTC-5, Brian G. Shacklett wrote: > > Tony, setting encoding to utf-8 seems to have done the trick. Files open > properly without my intervention now. Forgive my ignorance, but why is this > not the default at this point?
Probably because the default depends on your system locale. Most files on your system will probably be in that encoding, so keeping 'encoding' to match will work for most people out of the box without needing to mess with encoding detection and other such annoyances. -- 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
