Thank you very much for the patient answer, I'm sorry for my lengthy post. So, I think I kind of understand what fenc and fencs do, but I'm still unsure as to what enc does.
Sets the character encoding used inside Vim. It applies to text in the buffers, registers, Strings in expressions, text stored in the viminfo file, etc. It sets the kind of characters which Vim can work with.[...] This seems to describe a kind of default value for fenc based on your locale, but I'm not sure. NOTE: Changing this option will not change the encoding of the existing text in Vim. It may cause non-ASCII text to become invalid. This sentence is somewhat obscure. If I change 'encoding' after having loading a buffer, it effectively causes 'some non-ASCII text to become invalid'. What does then the statement mean, that 'this option will not change the encoding of the existing text in VIm'? -- 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