Re: Copying text from wikipedia yields: lots of ???

Humm...I was missing the encoding=utf-8 line

but now--so now problem has not been solved.

Now, instead of ???? marks I get solid blocks--the size of a character.

I think this is the right track, but I'm clueless as the proper settings.

awaiting instructions,

--Dan

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:37 PM, John Beckett <johnb.beckett@gmail.com> wrote:

Daniel M. Eldridge wrote:
> Pasting text from a wikipedia articles leaves me with lots of
> ????

I haven't looked at your images, but the problem is very likely
to be due to use of an incorrect encoding. The first two lines
in your vimrc should be:

set nocompatible
set encoding=utf-8

Saying "should be" is a bit of an over-generalisation, but it is
sufficiently accurate for most cases. Does the problem still
occur after restarting Vim with the above?

John

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