On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 07:56:14AM -0700, Ben Fritz wrote: > > > On Oct 19, 9:53 am, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > But the encoding options should be respected and accounted for, not > > modified to suit a script's needs (well, 'fenc' should certainly be > > modified if needed for a script's buffers, and 'fencs' can be modified > > temporarily to force detection of a certain 'fenc', but I cannot think > > of other reasons to mess with these). > > > > So maybe, certain options should not be settable via setscript? > 'encoding' certainly.
I lobbied a while back[0] to not allow setting of 'encoding' at all by the user. All they should really care about is 'fenc' and 'tenc'. If I remember right, the problem with always using an encoding of Unicode for 'encoding' was due to supporting 16-bit platforms. [0]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim.devel/22998 -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@jamessan.com>
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