On Oct 4, 8:07 am, Simon Ruderich <si...@ruderich.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 02:50:02AM -0700, esquifit wrote: > > [snip] > > > relevant for GUI. Fundamentally I'm missing a high level description > > of which encodings and which conversions come at which moment into > > play (vim startup, loading from memory, input from user, writing to > > disk, internal representation, whatever) > > :h mbyte.txt contains very detailed explanations what exactly > happens and when, but it's quite long. > > If you use GVim, you only need to do two things to get it to > work. set encoding=utf-8 and set 'fileencodings' to a value of > your choice, depending which charsets you want to work with. I > use UTF-8 for most my work, but want to be able to read latin1, > so I use set fileencodings=utf-8,latin1. > > Vimgor (the bot in #irssi) also has a short summary: > > Vim has multiple settings for encodings: 'encoding' sets > Vim's internal encoding (should be utf-8), 'fileencoding' > sets the encoding of a file, 'fileencodings' (s) are > encodings tried when opening a file. If Vim doesn't detect > the encoding correctly, use :e ++enc=encoding filename to > force the given encoding. If possible try it in GVim or > terminal encoding problems might interfere. >
You can also set fileencoding manually after a file read, so that you can convert it to a different encoding when writing the file. You will probably want this new encoding in your fileencodings option so it can be detected, otherwise you'll always need to :e ++enc=blah every time you open the file. > > > On a related note: is it possible to set different fonts in different > > vim windows/tabs within a single application window? (I could define > > an autocommand to restore the default font, but there is another > > situation in which this would not be a solution). > > No idea, I only use terminal Vim. > This is not possible. 'guifont' is always global. Can you not find a font with all the glyphs of interest to you? Or maybe, keep two different shortcuts/aliases for Vim, one for each font you need to use, and always use separate Vim instances. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
