>>> I can't precisely answer this, but I'll give you some guesses: I'll
>>> guess that the browser is using one encoding and you have gvim/vim using
>>> a different, incompatible encoding. I'm not sure how to determine what
>>> encoding your browser is using, but the encoding for vim can be checked
>>> with
>>>
>>> set enc
>>> set fenc
>>>
>>> If you can live with utf-8, try using that.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Chip Campbell
>>>
>>
>> Yes indeed.
>>
>> Conversion error when saving the file means that the file in the buffer (in
>> the 'encoding' charset) contains one or more characters which cannot be
>> represented in the 'fileencoding' charset which you're trying to save the
>> file in. For instance, the file contains an œ character (French oe digraph)
>> and you're trying to save it in Latin1.
>>
>> If the conversion error happens when reading or pasting into Vim memory,
>> then your 'encoding' is not compatible with the data; IOW, Vim cannot
>> represent the data in memory with the present choice of 'encoding'.
>>
>> I recommend to use UTF-8 for the data in Vim memory ('encoding'), because
>> Unicode (including UTF-8) can represent any possible computer charset.
>> Conversion between Unicode and Latin1 is trivial and Vim (if compiled with
>> +multi_byte of course, i.e. if has('multi_byte') is nonzero) can do it
>> without external help; conversion to or from some other non-Unicode charset
>> (or to or from GB18030, which technically is a Unicode charset but requires
>> large conversion tables) usually requires the iconv library, either
>> compiled-in or available for dynamic load at runtime (to check it, make sure
>> that has('iconv') has a nonzero value).
>>
>> See also http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode and the help pages
>> mentioned there.
>>
>> See also :help 8g8
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tony.
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the tips. Following two of them didn't really solve the issue.
> set enc returns
> encoding=utf-8
>
> and set fenc returns
> file encoding=latin1
>
> How can I know which of them actually applies?- the utf-8 or the
> latin1?- And how can I make sure utf-8, assuming this will resolve the
> error, applies?
They both apply: 'encoding' (a global option) applies to all data in Vim
memory, 'fileencoding' (which is buffer-local) applies to the current
file's data on disk. If the file's buffer in memory (as modified by your
edit) contains data above 0xFF, it cannot be saved as Latin1.
>
> the 8g8 is nice but it's not robust enough to help me cope with 2k
> line choke full of encoding wise illegal chars.
> The tip though had an example of encoding settings. I added it to my
> vimrc and it resolved the problem. For the record, end and fenc
> remains the same after I apply the tip. The problem is gone though and
> I can copy paste the problematic text to vim and save w/o error.
>
> Thanks!
> Yosi
>
There are other encoding options: 'termencoding' applies to what Vim
thinks that your keyboard is sending (and, in console mode, to what it
thinks your display is accepting); 'fileencodings' (plural) tells Vim
how to "guess" a disk file's charset when reading it into memory. There
is also 'printencoding' but I'm not sure how to make it work -- when I
want to print files containing "any" Unicode codepoints I save them to a
text or HTML file, then print that after loading it in my browser.
Best regards,
Tony.
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