Hi Igor, thank you for the suggestion. But I failed to find the proper setting for the tenc and fenc. I ended up setting up a vim mapping to change it as follows: map #8 :g/~S/s//"/g^M:g/~T/s//"/g^M:g/~Q/s//\'/g^M:g/~R/s//\'/g^M The characters are 147, 148, 145, 146 in decimal. Not an elegant solution. Please let me know if you have a encoding setting for me to try. Thanks again. ----- Original Message ----- From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, April 8, 2005 6:45 pm Subject: Re: vim display funny character under cygwin
> 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 > currentterminal 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'" > frominside 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 <" > target="l">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/
