Re: Character encoding in vim

On May 18, 4:43 pm, Jean-Rene David <jrda...@magma.ca> wrote:
> * Ven Tadipatri [2011.05.18 16:30]:
>
> > It looks like the directional quotes aren't being rendered correctly
> > in my vim editor. They show up as ~@~Y and ~@~X. How do I change this
> > so they show up properly?
>
> This usually happens when 'encoding' or 'fileencoding' don't match the
> content of the file. What are they set to when you edit that file?
>

Since there are two bytes being displayed I'm going to guess you're
editing a UTF-8 encoded file with your encoding set to the default 8-
bit encoding for your system (probably latin1).

You will need to set at least two options to let this work correctly:

'encoding'
'fileencodings'

See the help for each, and also our current featured tip on the wiki,
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode

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