Re: How to set utf-8 locally (for a buffer) on loading the file

Thank you both Tony and Kyungjoon for the detailed explanation. I
understand that setting 'encode' globally is recommended (or rather
the right thing to do) and so I did it. I've also set fileencodings as
suggested y Tony. This seems to works fine.

The whole set of options (encoding, fileencoding, fileencodings), the
different way to set them (set, localset, globalset) and the various
possible places at which the setting can be done (vim config. files,
filtype.vim, etc) makes the subject very difficult to handle. More
over, the different treatments depending on the platform (unix vs.
win32, terminal vs GUI, win32 native vs Cygwin, GTK or not, etc.). I
couldn't find any reasonable explanation of what each setting means in
each context; the vim helps is more of a dictionary than of a
tutorial, so it is difficult to find a natural path. Some statements
seems to be done implicitly assuming a unix system, some other seems
related to terminals but it is not that clear whether the same is
relevant for GUI. Fundamentally I'm missing a high level description
of which encodings and which conversions come at which moment into
play (vim startup, loading from memory, input from user, writing to
disk, internal representation, whatever)

On a related note: is it possible to set different fonts in different
vim windows/tabs within a single application window? (I could define
an autocommand to restore the default font, but there is another
situation in which this would not be a solution).

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