<Meino.Cramer <at> gmx.de> writes: >Paul <Paul.Domaskis <at> gmail.com> [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? > > what operating system do you use and from what tool/source is the > information about the length of the file?
Sorry for the tardy reply. It's cygwin that I'm using, and I use the "ls -l" command. The file size agrees nominally with Windows Explorer (Windows 7). The file size was accurate, but I found the cause for the greater file size. There were some abnormal lines of text buried in the many, many normal lines. Thanks anyway! -- -- 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.
