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

[Bram Moolenaar <Bram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Radovan Garabik wrote:

> I would much prefer something like "INVALID UTF-8 SEQUENCE" message
> displayed when _opening_ the file.

That's true, there is no real conversion being done in this situation.
I'll try to make that message clearer.

> > 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.
> 
> point is, latin1 is not the only encoding you are going to encounter
> (and way too many users are likely to encounter _other_ default
> encodings), and the conversion should be done manually off the editor.
> Automatic conversions are evil.

I suggest you stay on your UTF-8-only planet (without a history), you
clearly won't like the planet most other people are on (with a history
of various files laying around).

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