On 21/08/08 06:55, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Tony Mechelynck wrote: [...] >> 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. >
US-ASCII is the common 7-bit subset of both UTF-8 and Latin1; my 'fileencodings' detects it as UTF-8 (because Latin1 comes last, of course). That's part of why I was surprised when, after a helpfile in UTF-8 with BOM, it triggered an error. Best regards, Tony. -- "Life may have no meaning -- or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
