On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:12:39, Houder wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 14:09:59, Lee wrote: > > I'm looking at > > https://cygwin.com/packaging-hint-files.html#pvr.hint > > and it starts off with > > Use UTF-8 character encoding. > > > > How do I do that and how do I check that I actually did use UTF-8 > > character encoding _without_ using file? > [snip] > > > I used vi to create both files & I'd like to understand why file says > > one is ascii & the other is utf-8 > > vim can tell you that in the statusline ... > > :help statusline > :help encoding > > Ask Google to help you with the details: GS: "vim show encoding in status". > > E.g. > > - http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Show_fileencoding_and_bomb_in_the_status_line > (Show fileencoding and bomb in the status line) > > As an example: > > set laststatus=2 > "set statusline=... > set statusline+=\ en:\ %{strlen(&enc)\ ?\ &enc\ :\ 'x'} > "set statusline+...
Also read: - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23389/how-can-i-set-vims-default-encoding-to-utf-8 (How can I set VIM's default encoding to UTF-8?) for a "quickstart" on the subject of character encoding/vim. Henri -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
