On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 5:16 AM Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This is the problematic setting. In Latin1 encoding, Vim can only > > represent in its internal memory the 256 characters supported by > > Latin1, and that dark triangle is not one of them. See at > > https://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode (which my previous > > post also mentioned) how to set up Vim so that it can handle any > > Unicode codepoint. > > I download the vim source code and compiled it from scratch on the > ubuntu docker container. But vim still does not recognize UTF-8 > characters. > > Why is it so? Shouldn't vim recognize UTF-8 characters out-of-the-box?
Yes and no. It's complicated to explain. > > I put the following code at the beginning of my viimrc. I don't see > the problem solved either. > > if has("multi_byte") > if &termencoding == "" > let &termencoding = &encoding > endif > set encoding=utf-8 > setglobal fileencoding=utf-8 > "setglobal bomb > set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1 > endif > > -- > Regards, > Peng Somewhere inside that outer if..endif block, add scriptencoding utf-8 and you might also add the following just before the "endif" line:ee else echoerr "Error: Multi-byte not supported" Then do :setlocal fenc? in your vimrc, and if the answer is latin1, hit 8g8 to find any illegal UTF-8 byte sequences, and if there is one, correct it, then repeat until there are none left. Then :e to reload it, its 'fileencoding' should be utf-8. Edit it some more if you want. Then restart Vim. Best regards, Tony. -- -- 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 vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.