Hello,
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:31:23PM -0700, George Davidovich wrote:
> 32 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> 33 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 34
> 35 George=A0=A0-=A0=A0 ...
> As I understand it, "A0" represents the
> non-breaking space character.
In iso-8859-1? Maybe. If I create this file:
$ echo -e 'a\xa0b' > /tmp/nbsp
and then
$ vim /tmp/nbsp
vim shows:
a b
and
"/tmp/nbsp" [converted] 1L, 5C
in its status line at the bottom.
This means that vim converted text to utf8 (my
locale) and "nbsp" character now takes 2 bytes (in
utf8). And the 5th byte is "\n" BTW.
> Mutt displays the message correctly, but in vim,
> the character appears as a pipe symbol.
Please verify that vim can or cannot correctly
handle \xa0 character using the abovementioned
method.
> And, as you can tell, there's a whole lot of them.
If vim itself works OK but e-mails from mutt still
show a lot of pipes, then, well, mutt really feeds
vim with pipes.
> 2. As a workaround, how do I search/replace
> non-printable characters
> in vim?
If you want to perform a substitution
automatically when any file of type "mail" is
opened by vim, then the following snippet in your
~/.vimrc will help:
if has("autocmd")
" Replace all iso8859-1 nbsp chars with "_"
autocmd BufReadPost *
\ if &filetype == "mail" && &fileencoding == "latin1" |
\ %s/\%xA0/_/g |
\ endif
endif
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With best regards,
xrgtn (+380501102966/+380636177128/[email protected])
