Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:38:38AM +0200, Penguin Lover Michal 'vorner' Vaner squawked: > Hello > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:42:17PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > Hmm, I just checked a utf-8 file after I edited it and it says: > > > > :set encoding > > encoding=latin1 > > I would guess your UTF-8 f

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-14 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: > Or, I leave Vim encoding alone and run export LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > and Vim will use that. > > Did I get this right? Precisely. But why don't you just try it and see how it behaves? > PS. What I am not entirely sure about is where is the locale set > for my system? When it's not s

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-14 Thread Mick
On 14/08/07, Michal 'vorner' Vaner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:42:17PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > Hmm, I just checked a utf-8 file after I edited it and it says: > > > > :set encoding > > encoding=latin1 > > I would guess your UTF-8 file has no accents, or other c

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-14 Thread Mick
On 13/08/07, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hmm, I just checked a utf-8 file after I edited it and it says: > > > > :set encoding > > encoding=latin1 > > > > I assume this means that it was changed from utf8 to latin1 > > No. To see what encoding a file has, you co

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-13 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:42:17PM +0100, Mick wrote: > Hmm, I just checked a utf-8 file after I edited it and it says: > > :set encoding > encoding=latin1 I would guess your UTF-8 file has no accents, or other characters. In other words, it can be considered pure ASCII, which means Vim c

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: > Hmm, I just checked a utf-8 file after I edited it and it says: > > :set encoding > encoding=latin1 > > I assume this means that it was changed from utf8 to latin1 No. To see what encoding a file has, you could use 'file'. Run 'file thefileyouedited', and it should say "UTF-8 Uni

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-13 Thread Mick
On 13/08/07, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mick wrote: > > - My /etc/vim/vimrc says scriptencoding utf-8, does this mean > > that this is the vim encoding and any new file will be saved with > > this encoding? > > No, scriptencoding is just the encoding of /etc/vim/vimrc. File >

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-13 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mick wrote: > - My /etc/vim/vimrc says scriptencoding utf-8, does this mean > that this is the vim encoding and any new file will be saved with > this encoding? No, scriptencoding is just the encoding of /etc/vim/vimrc. File encoding is handled by 'fileencodings' further down. > - If I open a

Re: [gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-13 Thread Steffen Loos
Mick schrieb: > Hi All, > > I am trying to find out how I can see what encoding my vim is using. Also > would be good to know how to set it to a different encoding, if I need to. :set encoding should show you the encoding resently used. also you can set another encoding with, e.a.: :set encodin

[gentoo-user] vim encoding

2007-08-13 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am trying to find out how I can see what encoding my vim is using. Also would be good to know how to set it to a different encoding, if I need to. Some other questions that may help me understand how encoding works: - My /etc/vim/vimrc says scriptencoding utf-8, does this mean that