Hi Robert,
On Sunday, 2021-07-18 06:18:36 -0700, Robert Solomon wrote:
I often copy-paste from a browser into a text file to save the content I
come across. When I try to save the file, I often get a conversion error.
I have to manually go thru each error and change the extended character to
an ascii one.
Likely the text pasted from clipboard is in a different text encoding
(usually UTF-16 on Windows) than the file is saved in, and the file's
text encoding can't represent all characters. Issue the command
:set fenc?
that displays the current fileencoding. To be on the safe side choose an
encoding that can represent all Unicode characters, common is UTF-8.
So,
:set fileencoding=utf-8
before saving.
Best have encoding (taken from current locale) and fileencoding aligned
set to utf-8, but things may be more complicated on Windows. See
https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode and the help sections
it references.
Eike
Hi Eike,
I think that was it. It seems that the fenc for my files is latin1.
I'll add a line in my _vimrc to set fenc=utf-8
Thanks
--rob
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