since when is it acceptable to have UTF-8 format files as shell scripts, perl scripts or even python programs?
a directive in .vimrc can probably help. along the lines of au BefRead,ButNewFile *.sh,*.pl,*.py set nobomb or if you invoke your shell script with `bash --utf8 ./my_broken^H^H^H^Hutf-encoded.script` or just `LANG=C.UTF-8 ./my_utf8-script` or set LC_ALL etc. you know how people pose the question "if you could go back in time, would you kill Hitler? Same needs to be asked about the person/committee that came up with UTF8. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

