Humm...I was missing the encoding=utf-8 line but now--so now problem has not been solved.
Now, instead of ???? marks I get solid blocks--the size of a character. I think this is the right track, but I'm clueless as the proper settings. awaiting instructions, --Dan On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:37 PM, John Beckett <[email protected]>wrote: > Daniel M. Eldridge wrote: > > Pasting text from a wikipedia articles leaves me with lots of > > ???? > > I haven't looked at your images, but the problem is very likely > to be due to use of an incorrect encoding. The first two lines > in your vimrc should be: > > set nocompatible > set encoding=utf-8 > > Saying "should be" is a bit of an over-generalisation, but it is > sufficiently accurate for most cases. Does the problem still > occur after restarting Vim with the above? > > John > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
