Re: Encoding issues with Windows gvim

On Saturday, September 9, 2017 at 12:16:27 PM UTC-6, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> In your Windows gvim, at the point where you would be reading your
> problematic file, do instead
>
> :verbose set enc?
>
> If the answer is anything other than utf-8, then you cannot display
> the file in gvim because the UTF-16le of the file cannot be translated
> into whatever it is that gvim is using to represent characters in
> memory.
>
> See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode

Hi Tony,
Executing ":verbose set enc?" showed latin1. After reading the doc to be honest my minimal understanding of the topic was grayed even more. The sections of the manual around "*45.4* Editing files with a different encoding" helped however I am still unclear.

After setting an appropriate Unicode font in my vimrc (set guifont=courier_new:h11) and opening the file with ":e ++enc=utf-16le utf16.txt", the file was loaded with conversion errors (all upside down question marks). Executing ":set encoding=utf-16le" and reloading yet again with ":e ++enc=utf-16le utf16.txt" worked, I can now view the file?

Why didn't opening the file with "++enc=utf-16le" accomplish all that ":set encoding=utf-16le" did?

Thanks a lot for the help.

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