Hi all, I tried a few things:
(1) gvim -f ++enc=utf8 - result: "E492: Not an editor command: +enc=utf8 (2) gvim -f +enc=utf8 - result: see (1) (3) gvim -f +"set fenc=utf8" - result: no error message; sets fenc to "utf-8", but file is loaded as if with latin1. (4) gvim -f -c "set fenc=utf8" - result: see (3) (5) gvim -f --cmd "set fenc=utf8" - no error message; fenc remains is "latin1" A different approach: (6) (man llseek ; echo 'vim:fenc=utf8:') | gvim -f - result: no error message; fenc gets set to "utf-8"; file is loaded as if with latin1 See also below: On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 01:45, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If you find out after loading the stdin that it was opened in the > wrong encoding, then it's too late; but if you know the file's > encoding in advance, the should be a way, especially if your > 'encoding' (the charset used internally by Vim) is UTF-8 and if your > Vim is compiled with +iconv. Both conditions hold true. > To be able to detect Latin1 and UTF-8 (and UTF-16 with BOM) automagically, add > set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1 I tried that months ago. The result was that new files were assumed to have fenc=utf-8, for reasons you mention below. This is not acceptable, so I use "fileencodings=ucs-bom,latin1,cp437" (yes, I know the trailing ",cp437" is pointless). > somewhere in your vimrc (the s at the end of fileencodings is > important); but this isn't enough for files in cp437, especially if > Vim gets them on stdin. For those, load them with (untested) > someprogram | view ++enc=cp437 - I tested it; see top of message. > The above will detect files in 7-bit us-ascii encoding as utf-8 rather > than Latin1. This is not a bug, because the 128 characters which are > valid in us-ascii are represented identically in all three in > us-ascii, Latin1 and UTF-8. Right! Cheers, Albert. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CALPW7mQiUGf4-PEUU%2Bi3efpj0VWG7nmueO-OedxKUcij6_MTVA%40mail.gmail.com.
