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 02:26:36PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> > editor on my planet.]
> 
> The Vim defaults are such that most people can do their work without
> additional settings.  Since most people live on a planet where UTF-8 is
> still the new kid on the block, when Vim detects a malformed UTF-8
> sequence it assumes the file is not UTF-8.  It's probably latin1 or some

but it does this even in UTF-8 locale...
most people for whom UTF-8 is alien do not have UTF-8 locale.
It is reasonable to assume that if a user has UTF-8 locale,
and vim encouters malformed UTF-8 sequence, the file is in fact
broken UTF-8 file, and not in ISO-8859-1 encoding.
(especially since most people who are living on ISO-8859-1 planet
do not feel any need whatsoever to use anything resembling UTF-8,
so they would not be using UTF-8 locale)


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