Hi Robert, On Sunday, 2021-07-18 06:18:36 -0700, Robert Solomon wrote:
> I often copy-paste from a browser into a text file to save the content I > come across. When I try to save the file, I often get a conversion error. > I have to manually go thru each error and change the extended character to > an ascii one. Likely the text pasted from clipboard is in a different text encoding (usually UTF-16 on Windows) than the file is saved in, and the file's text encoding can't represent all characters. Issue the command :set fenc? that displays the current fileencoding. To be on the safe side choose an encoding that can represent all Unicode characters, common is UTF-8. So, :set fileencoding=utf-8 before saving. Best have encoding (taken from current locale) and fileencoding aligned set to utf-8, but things may be more complicated on Windows. See https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode and the help sections it references. Eike -- OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail preferred in all private communication. GPG key 0x6A6CD5B765632D3A - 2265 D7F3 A7B0 95CC 3918 630B 6A6C D5B7 6563 2D3A Use LibreOffice! https://www.libreoffice.org/ -- -- 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/YPSYqcUUtiPDhYB4%40kulungile.erack.de.
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