* Paul <muttml923...@rainslide.net> [2014-03-21 10:38 +0000]: > On Thursday, 20 March, 2014 at 17:27:41 GMT, Derek Martin wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:36:29AM +0000, Paul wrote: > >>Try "set encoding=utf-8" as the first thing in your .vimrc. > > > >Paul, this is bad advice; please stop telling people to do this. > >It's much more likely to make things worse, than better. > > It is "highly recommended" to do this in such an environment as > the OP's: > > http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#%27encoding%27 > > Perhaps I should stop persistently telling everyone (ie. a guy in > a thread one time) that suggestion.
One should have set $LANG in favour of setting enc in vimrc, though. Elimar -- Do you smell something burning or ist it me?
