On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 11:36:17 PM UTC+5:30, Christian Gollwitzer wrote: > Am 19.06.16 um 18:20 schrieb Rustom Mody: > > I gave an emacs solution to the issue not because I find editor-wars > > engaging > > but because I dont know how to do *this* with vi. > > I'd be surprised if vi actually cant do these: > > 1. Look under the unicode-hood to peek at what a char is -- C-u C-x = in > > emacs > > 2. Change file encoding -- C-x RET f in emacs > > > > Please do suggest vi-ways of handling this -- that would be useful! > > > Changing the encoding is > > :set fileencoding=utf-8
I was suggesting something like :set fileencoding=latin-1 It does work in a way in the sense that a file that has chars that would not encode to latin-1 does give errors But only later when saving and not pinpointing where the error is [Or I am doing something wrong maybe] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
