On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:00:15PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > An editor needs to convert between character sets. > > Does it?
See ":help fileencoding" in vim for documentation of a working implementation. > > How else are you going to display a latin1 file in a UTF-8 locale, > > for example? > > You don't. You throw up an error. That requires the user to run iconv manually and edit the converted file. Can be done, sure, but I wouldn't find that very convenient. Then again, I don't use mg. I'm just offering my opinion on the patch, and why I think it's not the right solution. If mg users don't agree, just ignore me.
