Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> >> E670: Mix of help file encodings within a language:
> >> /usr/local/share/vim/vimfiles/doc/hicolors.txt
> >>
> >> The error is given by the :helptags command.
> >>
> >> After investigation, it appears that all the *.txt files in
> >> $VIM/vimfiles/doc are in UTF-8 (or can be read as UTF-8), which is my
> >> current 'encoding'; the file which sorts before the one in the message,
> >> however, is the only one with a BOM (the file has just been created by
> >> UseVimball). (The files in that directory are Rndm.txt, hicolors.txt,
> >> hicolorshelp.txt, a softlink to matchit.txt, and a tags file.) It also
> >> appears that the error has truncated the tags file to zero-length.
> >>
> >> I removed the BOM, and then ":helptags $VIM/vimfiles/doc" generated a
> >> tags file with no error.
> >
> > Sounds like a minor problem with vimball.
>
> It may be due to my settings, which include ":setglobal bomb".
> (enc=utf-8 would also be set if it weren't already the GTK2 default.)
>
> >
> >> Bug or feature?
> >> 1. Why should it be an error to have various help files from different
> >> sources in $VIM/vimfiles/doc, some in UTF-8 with BOM, and others in
> >> US-ASCII with of course no BOM but otherwise readable as UTF-8?
> >
> > Because the tags file can only be in one encoding.
>
> But, is UTF-8 with BOM different from UTF-8 without BOM? And how does
> ":helptags" detect the encoding used by a file?
Right, that should work. But ASCII is not utf-8, and I think (without
looking at the code) that ASCII files default to latin1 encoding.
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