DervishD wrote: > > Did you try setting 'termencoding'? > > My terminal is latin1 and only understands latin1, unfortunately, so > changing "termencoding" to any different of "latin1" just causes more > harm. BTW, I use vim always on the virtual console, text mode.
If your terminal always is in "latin1" then you should indeed set 'termencoding' to "latin1". > > "utf-8" is a superset of "latin1", thus using "utf-8" for 'encoding' > > should nearly always work. > > Except that then I have to encode my 'showbreak' option as utf8 and > not latin1 :( I prefer to have it encoded as latin1 (as the rest of my > files), until I switch to utf8. Yeah, there are small things like this. You might want to put this in your .vimrc: scriptencoding latin1 > So far, the only combination that does what I want is setting 'tenc' > to latin1 (which is the correct one for my virtual terminal under > Linux), and setting 'enc' by hand, leaving 'fenc' empty so it is in sync > with 'encoding'. Of course, this is dangerous because changing > 'encoding' is never a good idea, and I shouldn't been changing it, buf > if I only change 'fenc', I still see 'á' instead of 'á'. Of course, changing 'fenc' doesn't have any immediate effect. It only changes the encoding that Vim will write the file with. > If I change 'enc', I see 'á', correctly. You should do ":edit ++enc=utf-8 filename" or include "utf-8" in 'fileencodings' before editing the file. Then it will work no matter what 'encoding' is set to. > What I don't understand is that if I set 'fencs' and let 'fenc' take > the value from it, the translation is done correctly because vim > converts the characters. Once the file is loaded, this doesn't happen > and setting 'enc' by hand seems the only choice. Am I doing anything > wrong? Yes. 'fenc' is set by Vim when it reads the file. Setting it to another value doesn't cause the file to be reread or conversion to be done. -- What a wonderfully exciting cough! Do you mind if I join you? -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org ///