Re: How to set utf-8 locally (for a buffer) on loading the file

On 6 Oct, 21:54, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> Did you read the Vim Tips Wiki link I gave you?
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicodeand in particular
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode#What_the_above_does
>
> Vim is largely cross-platform, but the various OSes have different
> idiosyncrasies, and in particular, different customs about setting
> locales: for instance, under Linux I see en_US.UTF-8 as my locale, but
> under Windows it used to be French_Belgium.1252, which means an fr_BE
> locale using the Windows-1252 charset. For some reason Windows requires
> the charset part of the locale to be numeric (the "code page" for
> Unicode is 10646 IIUC, and I'm not sure whether that means UTF-8 or
> UTF-16le). Vim will use UTF-8 internally if 'encoding' is set to some
> variant of UTF-16 or UTF-32, because these use a lot of null bytes as
> part of the words or doublewords representing non-null codepoints, and
> that is incompatible with the null-terminated C strings used by Vim; but
> if 'fileencoding' is empty, Vim will use the actual value of 'encoding'
> even if that means converting between UTF-8 (used internally in place of
> something else) and, let's say, UTF-16le (used on disk).
>
> So Vim for Linux will often work in Unicode "out of the box" because
> that's what the OS had already set, while Vim for Windows has to set it
> explicitly. But a common vimrc will, in this respect, work for both (it
> did for me, when I was running double-boot W98 and Linux).

Yes, I did it before I posted my original question here. Thank you
very much again.
Unfortunately I must be very stupid because I still don't get it.

> About the differences between :set, :setglobal and :setlocal, see
>         :help set-option        " (the whole list of commands)
>         :help set-verbose
>         :help local-options
>         :help :setlocal
>         :help :setglobal
>         :help global-local
>
> With Vim, everything is in the help, but sometimes you get a kind of
> needle-and-haystack feeling out of it. See the first 150 or so lines in
> :help helphelp.txt about how to domesticate that feeling.

I read the help immediately, I didn't know about that before. This one
was easy :)

>
> > On a related note: is it possible to set different fonts in
> > different vim windows/tabs within a single application window? (I
> > could define an autocommand to restore the default font, but there is
> > another situation in which this would not be a solution).
>
> No. In gvim the 'guifont' option is global, and in Console Vim the font
> is set by the underlying terminal to a single font for the whole screen.

I see. Actually, the 'only' thing I find annoying is the following:
I am comfortable with a 9pt font for English and German, but I need
something bigger for Japanese. When I work with Japanese and Western
languages simultaneously (in different windows) I have to manually
change the font every time that I switch from a window with Japanese
text to another one with English, and viceversa.
Never mind. I'm suspecting I will be able to read minuscule kanjis
long before I am able to understand the inner workings of vim and its
encoding mysteries.

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