On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 7:55:07 AM UTC-6, FlashBurn wrote:
> I run gVim on Windows 7. I have my showbreak set as follows
>
> set showbreak=…
>
> However for some reason when my line is too long I see the following symbol:
> ¿
>
> I have to reload my _vimrc file in order to display …
>
> Does anybody know what is the issue and what I'm doing wrong?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
I'm going to make a guess, but I don't know what your settings are, so this is
just a guess.
Probably, your Vim is starting up using the default encoding in Windows, which
is probably an 8-bit encoding like cp1252 (and Vim will use Latin1).
You probably set encoding to utf-8 in your .vimrc somewhere, to better support
characters like '…'
But since Vim started in a different encoding, it does not read the bytes
correctly in "set showbreak=…" when parsing your .vimrc. Therefore, it uses
some other character (or an unknown character). But when you re-source your
.vimrc, it reads the bytes correctly.
If this is the cause, then possible fixes include:
1. Place an appropriate "scriptencoding" command in your .vimrc, to tell Vim
how to read the bytes in the file. For example, "scriptencoding utf-8".
2. Use the escape syntax of strings and a :let command, instead of a :set
command, somewhere AFTER setting Vim's 'encoding' option. For example:
let &showbreak="\u2026"
If this does not sound like the cause, then what is your 'encoding' value set
to, and where does that setting occur in relation to your showbreak setting?
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