Re: How to run shell commands containing non-ascii characters from Vim

On Monday, January 21, 2013 6:29:10 AM UTC-6, av wrote:
> Hi,
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> Do you know how to run shell commands containing non-ascii characters
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> from Vim?
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> example:
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> echo system('type myfileété2012.txt')
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> I know that a simple "r myfileété2012.txt" would include the content
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> of the file, but I gave the type command as an example, it could be
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> any shell command.
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> This command should in windows, show the content of the file called
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> myfileété2012.txt but because there are accents (é), the file is not
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> found. Files containing french accents and russian alphabet cannot be
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> run from vim shell commands.
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> thank you very much,
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> Alexandre

Probably your 'encoding' option does not match the filesystem encoding. For example, my Vim uses utf-8 for 'encoding' but filenames on my system appear to be in Latin1.

I thought 'termencoding' would handle the necessary conversion, but it actually does nothing of the sort. I'm not sure if there is a more elegant way to do this, but the following works for me:

:echo system(iconv('type äbcdé.txt', 'utf-8', 'latin1'))

See :help iconv() for details.

Does anybody know of a better way to get Vim to properly translate between encodings before invoking the shell?

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