On 21/08/08 14:42, Marvin Renich wrote: [...] > 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?
just what you said above. But in the future I might remove "default", though I think it wouldn't make much difference on my system where $LC_CTYPE is set to en_US.UTF-8 > > 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 arabic.txt, hebrew.txt and even options.txt (the latter under 'langmap') are already in UTF-8. farsi.txt is not in UTF-8, and I suspect that it isn't in Latin1 either. Best regards, Tony. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 134. You consider bandwidth to be more important than carats. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
