Re: Setting the language

Hi,

2019/5/20 Mon 15:52:09 UTC+9 Axel Bender wrote:
> @Christian,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> Is there any reason why anyone would not want UTF8? (just joking...)
>
> That's exactly the problem, I can't set the language to UTF-8 for the various types (messages, ctype, time) in Windows.
>
> language english_United States.1252 works (but is not what I want).
> language english_United States.65001 (which represents UTF-8 in Windows) doesn't (as does english_United States.UTF-8 or english.United States.utf8), which all result in E197 being thrown.
>
> I see no other way to influence the collation for sorting regions, e.g. with
> '<,'>sort than setting the language...
>
> I explicitly do not want Windows 1252.

If you want to use UTF-8, write the following line in your .vimrc (_vimrc):

set encoding=utf-8

:language cannot be used for setting the encoding.

Regards,
Ken Takata

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