On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 03:33:15PM +0300, Beni Cherniavsky wrote: > Herouth Maoz wrote on 2003-07-27: > > > As for vi, I'm a bit mystified about this myself - I removed UTF8 from every > > localization file in my system, and still vi opens up with a default file > > encoding of utf8. > > > > Each program has its own behaviour, however. Take vi - it has an encoding, and > > then, a file encoding. As it is, I changed the encoding to iso8859-8 in its > > vimrc. So when it reads a plain ascii file it assumes a file encoding of utf-8 > > and does a (useless) conversion. If, however, the file contains Hebrew > > characters in ISO8859-8, it interprets it as an unknown encoding, and loads it > > up just fine... Each program has such quirks. > >
According to vim's help is uses the environment settings (see ":h locale" and onwards, and specifically ":h encoding-table" Heruth: are you sure you have a proper ISO-8859-8 LC_CTYPE? WorksForMe on debian-unstable: by default it uses UTF-8, but |I can use 'LANG=he_IL gvim -fn heb8x13' to get gvim with 8bit Hebrew. > Wild guess: vi is trying to autodetect UTF-8. The probability of a > file in non-ascii encoding other than UTF-8 to be decodable as valid > UTF-8 is very low (except for extremely short text or texts with very > few non-ascii characters). There should be some auto-detection. But generally the environment is used first. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
