Re: Encoding issue

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Tony Mechelynck
<antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> cp1251 is an 8-bit encoding, and as such it cannot give an "error" signal when trying to open a file with it. In 8-bit encodings, there are no invalid bytes. This means that anything after the first 8-bit encoding in 'fileencodings' will never be tried. For instance, if you have
>
>        :set fencs=ucs-bom,utf-8,cp1251,iso-8859-15,latin1,shift-jis
>
> thelast three (including shift-jis which is a multibyte encoding) will never be tried.

Not 100% true. I don't know if it's documented, but if your system
does not recognize cp1251 for some reason, Vim seems through
experimentation to move on to the next. I learned this by accident on
a poorly configured server at work, which understands neither "cp1252"
nor "8bit-cp1252". So, my fencs now ends in ...,cp1252,latin1. On
Windows, most files load in cp1252. On the server, they load in
latin1.

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