Tony,
thanks for your tips. Your suggestion led me to this answer:
http://superuser.com/questions/207264/gvim-utf-8-in-windows which resolved
my issues.
J.
2012/11/13 Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com>
> On 12/11/12 22:47, J S wrote:
>
>> Thanks Ben,
>> the encoding setting is the first thing in my vimrc. For testing
>> purposes I only had that line in a testrc file. The character
>> representation is still wrong.
>>
>> Besides, I think I am not talking about the 'real' statusline since
>> playing with the "set statusline" command changes the line above the one
>> I was talking about. I guess the line I am talking about isn't even
>> called statusline. What I mean is the line giving the status on commands
>> (e.g. "wote xyz lines to file" on a :w) so I thought it is eponymous.
>> Maybe it's called command line instead?
>> J.
>>
>
> Maybe Vim doesn't know in which language you want your messages displayed.
> In Console mode, there is a 'termencoding' option which tells Vim in which
> encoding it should communicate with the terminal. The default for that
> option is empty, which means "use 'encoding'", but if you change 'encoding'
> the OS won't know it and from then on Vim and the display (and keyboard)
> will be talking at cross-purposes. Another possibility is the locale (see
> :help :lang).
>
> So:
>
> if has('multi_lang') " if it doesn't, there is no :lang command
> if has('unix') || has('mac')
> " Vim musst weißen, dass wir Berichten
> " auf Deutsch, und in UTF-8, wünschen zu sehen.
> lang de_DE.UTF-8
> else
> " I hope the following is correct for Windows
> " please check and, if necessary, use trial-and-error
> lang German_Germany.10646
> endif
> endif
> if has('multi_byte') " if it doesn't, no 'encoding' etc.
> if &enc !~? '^u' " if it is not already Unicode
> if &tenc == ""
> " don't clobber keyboard/display settings
> " keep the old 'encoding' value
> " for console I/O
> let &tenc = &enc
> endif
> set enc=utf-8 " now we may change it
> endif
> set fencs=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
> endif
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
> --
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>
>
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