On Thursday, July 3, 2014 10:20:45 AM UTC-5, rameo wrote:
> I've written this in my _vimrc file
>
> if has("multi_byte")
> if &termencoding == ""
> let &termencoding = &encoding
> endif
> set encoding=utf-8
> set fileencoding=utf-8
> set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
> endif
>
> When I open a latin1 file in my editor VIM indicates [CONVERTED] after the
> file name under the statusline.
>
> Fileencoding has been converted to Latin1. Correct. The file will be saved in
> Latin1.
I assume you verified this, using ":set fileencoding?", or you have some other
method of viewing the fileencoding option? "fileencoding" is not only the way
to control what encoding is used when writing; "fileencoding" also controls how
Vim *reads* the file data. If Vim guessed the "fileencoding" wrongly, then you
will either see a conversion error, or the wrong characters (or missing glyphs)
shown in your file.
> But my problem is that the Encoding is still in UTF-8: I see many squares in
> the latin1 file.
>
"encoding" is Vim's internal representation of character strings. There is NO
problem that the global encoding is still utf-8. This is a good thing.
Furthermore, since every single character is Latin1 is also representable in
utf-8, this CANNOT be the cause of the squares in your latin1 file.
> 1) Why doesn't Vim also let me read the file in Latin1 (changes the encoding
> to latin1)?
>
If "fileencoding" actually is set to "latin1" automatically by Vim after
reading the file, then Vim *did* read the file in "latin1". I think more
likely, Vim didn't actually use latin1 to read the file, or your font is
missing some glyphs for characters in your file (unlikely if Vim actually used
latin1).
> To temporary resolve this problem I set the encoding manually to Latin1
> :setlocal enc=latin1 | :e
>
This won't work for a couple reasons. First of all, "encoding" is a global
option ONLY. It controls how Vim internally represents character data; nothing
more. So not only does the "setlocal" not work, but also you've corrupted the
data Vim already has stored internally, because Vim doesn't do any conversion
of existing data when you set "encoding".
> But I noted that it changes the global encoding to Latin1 and now I see UTF-8
> files in other tabs in the wrong Latin1 encoding.
>
> 2) How can I set encoding only to the local buffer?
>
> What did I wrong?
The correct way to force a single file to load using a given encoding, is, for
example:
:e ++enc=latin1
This is confusing, because it actually sets the *fileencoding* option, not the
encoding option.
Note that your current "fileencodings" option, will actually prefer to load a
file in utf-8 over latin1. If a file is valid in both utf-8 and in latin1, it
will be loaded in utf-8.
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