* Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080821 00:55]: > > 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. > > >> > > >> 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. >
I would have expected :helptags to use the current value of 'fencs', which, if encoding=utf-8, defaults to ucs-bom,utf-8,default,latin1, which should favor utf-8 over latin1. Tony, what was fencs when you ran helptags? Bram, if this is not currently how helptags determines fenc, would you consider it a bug? It may not have been the case in the early days of Vim, but now I expect that utf-8 is widely used enough that the help files distributed with Vim should use utf-8. Putting a BOM at the beginning of each help file would facilitate easy detection. I think that using utf-8 for the official help files is the most reasonable way to allow everybody (especially script authors) to add help files that are compatible with the distribution. ...Marvin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
