Careful, Tim: UTF-8 is unsuited to binary editing, because you
can't enter a byte >127 by itself in UTF-8.
True enough. I tend not to use UTF-8, so I defer to your far
greater experience/knowledge on the matter.
For doing binary editing in vim (a rare occurance, when I'm not
just using a proper hex-editor), I tend to use the xxd that comes
with the windows version (and is usually available on most Linux
systems I've used) for transforming into an ascii representation
of the hex, and translating back. Details are found at
:help hex-editing
-tim
PS: a belated welcome back to the list, Tony....hope you had a
relaxing time away.
