Re: vim: display â<80><99>

On 10/02/13 04:27, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Saturday, February 9, 2013 8:51:28 PM UTC-6, ping wrote:
>> I've copied and pasted an article from web page and it looks I got a lot
>>
>> of following:
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>> �<80><99>
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>> so essentially it should be just a ' character, for example:
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>>
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>> If you�<80><99>ve
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>> is there a way to get them displayed/processed well?
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>
> Figure out what encoding the text is supposed to be in, make sure your 'encoding' option can represent all the desired characters, and save/load the file in the correct 'fileencoding'.
>
> :help 'encoding'
> :help 'fileencoding'
> :help 'fileencodings'
> :help multibyte
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode
>
>

Yes, ping, it looks like your file is in UTF-8 but your Vim is
interpreting it in Latin1 (and by Latin1 I mean as defined by ISO under
standard ISO-8859-1, not the similar but just ever so slightly different
encoding called Windows-1252, or on Windows "code page 1252" and which
on Microsoft machines is often confused with Latin1):

Encoding display (hex) (description)
Latin1 â 0xE2 small Latin letter a with circumflex
<80> 0x80 <control>
<99> 0x99 <control>

UTF-8 ' OxE2 0x80 0x99 U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

N.B. The two <control> characters are nonprinting (they have no display
equivalent in Latin1). They might be regarded as Alt-Ctrl-@ and
Alt-Ctrl-Y respectively.


So I recommend the same readings as Ben already did, especially the last
one.


Best regards,
Tony.
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