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

[Radovan Garabik <garabik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:16:58AM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> Radovan Garabik wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 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).
> 

I do have a long history in the world of computing, with corresponding
amount of old files in various encodings lying on my disk. Some of them
are even in ISO-8859-1. I just do not like when vim attempts automatic
conversion when editing these files.

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