On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:09:21AM -0500, James Vega wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 01:46:22PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Because of #379107 I have this in my vimrc file: > > :let &termencoding = &encoding > > set encoding=utf-8 > > au FileType mail setlocal fenc=latin1 > > > > However that doesn't seem to work anymore, and the fileencoding is now > > set to utf-8 instead of latin1. > > From a quick test, using an autocmd to set 'fenc' to latin1 works for > me. Could you try ":verbose set fenc?" from the mail file?
It says utf-8. I've looked at that before sending that mail. > > I also wanted to set other options for mail now, but it doesn't seem to > > have any effect. So my guess was that detections of the filetype was > > broken. I use mutt so my files look like > > /tmp/mutt-intrepid-1000-28242-16. > > Testing in my Lenny chroot, that file pattern does get recognized as > 'mail' filetype. ":verbose set filetype?" will show what filetype it is > set to and which script set it. I get: filetype= It seems it doesn't recoginize any filetype. I have this installed: vim 1:7.1.314-3+lenny2 vim-common 1:7.1.314-3+lenny2 vim-runtime 1:7.1.314-3+lenny2 And my alternatives: /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim.basic /etc/alternatives/vim -> /usr/bin/vim.basic > > But I also just tried "set fenc=latin1" in my vimrc file, but that > > doesn't seem to have any effect when editing non-empty files either, it > > only seems to have an effect on empty files. If the file already has > > ascii text in it, it will always set fenc to utf-8 it seems. > > From :help 'fenc > > When reading a file 'fileencoding' will be set from 'fileencodings'. > To read a file in a certain encoding it won't work by setting > 'fileencoding', use the |++enc| argument. One exception: when > 'fileencodings' is empty the value of 'fileencoding' is used. > For a new file the global value of 'fileencoding' is used. I don't care about which encoding it's using when reading. I care about the encoding it's going to use when writing. You can perfectly open an utf-8 file, change fenc, and then write a latin1 file. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
