Re: Forcing vim 6.0 to stay in UTF-8 mode in a UTF-8 locale

[Bram Moolenaar <Bram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Radovan Garabik wrote:

> > in my ~/.vimrc i use:
> > "
> > set encoding=utf-8
> > "

Note that if you use a UTF-8 locale 'encoding' will be automatically set
to utf-8 already.  No need to add something in your ~/.vimrc file.

> do also:
> set fileencoding=utf-8
> so that you do not encounter those nasty CONVERSION ERRORs

The value of 'fileencoding' is changed as soon as you open a file.  It's
used to remember the encoding of the file (can be different from the
encoding used inside Vim).  You can also change it after reading a file,
so that ":w" writes it with a different encoding.

You probably want to set 'fileencodings' to "utf-8" or make it empty.
Then Vim won't check for a BOM or fall back to using latin1.  You still
get CONVERSION ERRORs when editing a file with an illegal byte sequence,
and that's a good hint for the user.


I think a discussion about whether receiving a latin1 file which is
automatically converted to UTF-8 counts as being on a UTF-8-only planet
or not isn't very useful.  Point is that you do need the conversion now
and then.

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