I regularly get files encoded in UTF16LE sent to me and want them
to be automatically converted to UTF8 when opening them.
I'm not sure what command to use/put in .vimrc for that though, so
I wonder if anybody is already doing this, and how?
/bpj
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On 15/11/12 09:18, BPJ wrote:
I regularly get files encoded in UTF16LE sent to me and want them to be
automatically converted to UTF8 when opening them.
I'm not sure what command to use/put in .vimrc for that though, so
I wonder if anybody is already doing this, and how?
/bpj
If a file in UTF
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Tony Mechelynck
wrote:
>
> If a file in UTF-16le has a BOM (the codepoint U+FEFF at the very beginning
> of the file, which for UTF-16le means the bytes 0xFF 0xFE), then if you have
> set Vim to use UTF-8 'encoding' in your vimrc that file will usually be
> opened
On Thursday, November 29, 2012 2:41:16 PM UTC-6, vtadipatri wrote:
>
> I'm not really that familiar with the different encoding types (UTF-8,
>
> UTF-16, etc), but when I came across a strange character which
>
> I think is related to what you're describing.
>
> I open up two files in gedit
On 15:41 Thu 29 Nov , Ven Tadipatri wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Tony Mechelynck
> wrote:
>
> >
> > If a file in UTF-16le has a BOM (the codepoint U+FEFF at the very beginning
> > of the file, which for UTF-16le means the bytes 0xFF 0xFE), then if you have
> > set Vim to use UTF-
On Thursday, November 29, 2012 3:16:33 PM UTC-6, coot_. wrote:
>
> is the BOM character for UTF-16 encoding. UTF-16 uses 2 bytes to
>
> encode a character, but the order of them might differ. This BOM
>
> character tells which byte comes first.
>
feff is the BOM character for UTF-8 as well,
