Paul <[email protected]> [15-05-01 03:46]: > This is my first foray into character encoding, and I'm trying to > ensure that a large file is of the size that one can expect for 1 byte > per character. It is a simple text file that contains about 42 > million characters. The file on the HD is 84MB. I've set encoding > and fileencoding to latin1, which the help says is 8-bit characters. > I also have fileformat=unix to ensure that line endings are only 1 > byte. After writing to HD, however, the file on the HD is still 84MB. > I know that it's not due to my use of cygwin because for this very text > that I'm using to compose this message, the characters counts so match > the file size. > > What else could be cause the 2x discrepancy between file size and > characte count? > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
Hi Paul, what operating system do you use and from what tool/source is the information about the length of the file? Best regards, Meino -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
