Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Re: Error When Opening an Perl Script

Втр, 14 Сен 2010, Gareth Oakes писал(а):
> > > Hi VIMers:
> > > Pls help me with this problem.
> >
> > > ###############################################################
> > > OS Env: Windows XP Pro, SP3 (English Version)
> >
> > > Problem Details:
> > > Errors occur when a perl script is opened. The attachment contains the
> > > error message on the screen.
> >
> > > If Enter is pressed, the perl script can be opened. But it can NOTbe
> > > saved with the usual command ':w'.  Command ':w!' has to been used to
> > > save the file. It seems VIM opens this file in read-only mode.
> >
> > > ###############################################################
> > > Thanks in advance :)
> >
> > What on earth are you doing, to get "Thanks" instead of "thanks"?
>
> I imagine Dennis has a Chinese version of whatever operating system he
> is on. Chinese IMEs can produce these fullwidth characters. They are
> used when embedding "Latin" words into Chinese text, because they are
> fullwidth (and the Chinese characters in the surrounding text are
> fullwidth too). This means everything lines up nicely when printed
> out.
>
> I wouldn't expect most people, especially native Chinese speakers, to
> know or care about the difference between fullwidth latin characters
> and regular (ASCII) latin characters. It seems to me a little unfair
> to give Dennis a hard time about those characters, similar to picking
> on someone about having a funny accent when they talk.

I cannot agree with you. Full width characters except punctuation marks
look ugly and I don't think they are popular in printed materials either.
I don't think Dennis wasn't aware what is full width and what is not full width.
I'll leave Dennis to explain why full width was used.

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