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.
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