On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:02:15AM EDT, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > cga2000 wrote:
[..] > > > >OK. I had tested both data entry syntaxes -- just Ctrl-K or Ctrl-V > >followed by Ctrl-K. I did that with the middle dot and I was getting an > >"invalid character" error message .. > > > >But then I was unsure how you were supposed to enter the character and > >figured that the problem was that I needed to enter a Ctrl-V before the > >Ctrl-K .. when in fact what probably happened was that I was doing > >something wrong .. inverting the digraph's two characters, maybe .. who > >knows. > > > >With your explanations above, I gave it another shot and this time > >everything works as advertised. > > > >My only problem now is that both looks very nice indeed and I'm not sure > >which one I am going to use. > > Which one you use will of course be your own choice; but if you are > undecided, I recommend the currency sign, which is more visible in all > fonts (including any fonts you may use in the future): in the Courier > font I'm using in this mail client, the middle-dot is a single pixel, > not very easy to notice. Or you may want to use a different style of > bullets for nested lists (bulleted lists within bulleted lists). > > > > >Also, first thing I did was a > > > >:set encoding=latin1 > [...] > > If you had something else before (such as cp1252 or cp850), it may have > helped. > Well, that was obviously not relevant to my problem but it did surprise me that ":set enc?" yielded "encoding=". So it's not set to anything by default. Presumably this means that it just picks up the current locale, right? And Vim's rationale here is to display "nothing" unless I modified the default. Thanks cga
