I have an additional question concerning this topic, that has been discussed several times.
I am happily using (g)vim with files containing several languages, basically as editor for LaTeX, and it's all right with Unicode. I am working in Linux Mandriva 2007, with (g)vim 7.0.30. I still have a minor problem. My default encoding is Unicode-utf8: the .vimrc file says "set encoding=utf8". The automatic conversion from latin1 to utf8 is perfect. However, sometimes, for reasons of compatibility with other programs that still cannot read Unicode files (e.g. LyX) I must leave the "latin1" encoding of some files unchanged. What I do is: 1. open gvim 2: set encoding=latin1 3: e: filename.txt 4. work and save the file, that this way remains in its original encoding. OR :e ++enc=latin1 filename.txt Question: Is there any difference among the two systems? Is the original encoding affected in some way by one of the two approaches? Thanks! gm ------------ Guido Milanese http://www.arsantiqua.org
