On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, ERIC HO wrote: > Hi there, not sure whether this is a cygwin or vim issue. I have a file > that contains "hello" (note it's really a upside down ,,). When I cat > the file, it displays correctly like when I use notepad. But when I'm in > vim editing the file, it shows up as ~Shello~T.
The above is expected behavior. You're trying to get Vim to open a file in an encoding that it doesn't know how to display (UTF-8?), so it substitutes its own character combinations (and colors, if you're in a color terminal) for those characters that aren't defined in the current terminal encoding. You can get Vim to convert the characters for you, provided you set the correct 'termencoding' and 'fileencoding' combination. For more information, run ":help 'termencoding'" and ":help 'fileencoding'" from inside Vim. > Very likely it's not a cygwin issue. I'd appreciate if someone has any > suggestion for me. Thanks. Note: I'm running the latest cygwin packages. One more point: as described in <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>, the best way of reporting the status of your installation is by attaching (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output of "cygcheck -svr". You probably don't need to do it in this particular case, though, unless you have other Cygwin-related problems or the answer above is not satisfactory. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
