Hello Corinna, You have updated the version of vim to 7.2 last month. In this version, iconv feature is disabled like this.
| VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Aug 10 2008 10:52:25) | Compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): | | +float +folding -footer +fork() +gettext -hangul_input -iconv | +insert_expand In the previous version, this feature was enabled. | VIM - Vi IMproved 7.1 (2007 May 12, compiled May 14 2007 16:29:51) | Compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Huge version without GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): | +folding -footer +fork() +gettext -hangul_input +iconv | +insert_expand +jumplist Do you have any special reasons for that? If not, enabling this feature is helpful for us. Thanks in advance. Regards, Kenji Yamashita -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/