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 could use 'file'. Run > 'file thefileyouedited', and it should say "UTF-8 Unicode text". > When you open the file again with vim, it will say "[converted]" on > the status line: converted from utf-8 to latin1.
That's what I did first of all, but got this in return: ======================================== $ file Website/sitemap.xml Website/sitemap.xml: XML ======================================== > Because your LANG isn't set, the default is Latin1, as you could > have learned by typing ':help enc' in vim. Thanks for the tip. The depths of Vim's help pages never cease to amaze me. > > Do I have to change my locale? > > Depends on what you want. If new files should be UTF-8 encoded, > then change your locale. Otherwise you're fine as you are. Hmm, not sure: I want to be able to edit text files, which may be occasionally just ascii, or MS Windows, or UTF-8, without creating any problems when these are opened at the receiving end. The above file was a UTF-8 file before I edited it and Google will spit it out if the encoding has been changed. If I understand the autoconversion feature correctly, vim will open/convert it; then I will edit it in which ever language my locale is meant to have been set up (latin1); then it will convert/save it back in UTF-8 . . . unless I have entered in my editing any funny characters(?). I believe that in most cases this should be satisfactory. Alternatively, I will use e.g. :set enc utf-8 in Vim and carry on merrily editing the txt file. Or, I leave Vim encoding alone and run export LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" and Vim will use that. Did I get this right? PS. What I am not entirely sure about is where is the locale set for my system? When I look into /etc/env.d/ I cannot find the file 02locale. -- Regards, Mick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
