Re: Encoding issue

On 10/07/11 18:43, Benjamin Fritz wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Tony Mechelynck
> <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> cp1251 is an 8-bit encoding, and as such it cannot give an "error" signal when trying to open a file with it. In 8-bit encodings, there are no invalid bytes. This means that anything after the first 8-bit encoding in 'fileencodings' will never be tried. For instance, if you have
>>
>> :set fencs=ucs-bom,utf-8,cp1251,iso-8859-15,latin1,shift-jis
>>
>> thelast three (including shift-jis which is a multibyte encoding) will never be tried.
>
> Not 100% true. I don't know if it's documented, but if your system
> does not recognize cp1251 for some reason, Vim seems through
> experimentation to move on to the next. I learned this by accident on
> a poorly configured server at work, which understands neither "cp1252"
> nor "8bit-cp1252". So, my fencs now ends in ...,cp1252,latin1. On
> Windows, most files load in cp1252. On the server, they load in
> latin1.
>

Hm, yes indeed, this would be an edge case. I haven't experienced it
because with the exception of a "tiny build" Vim which I compile under
the name "vi", mostly as a check against missing #ifdef's in the source,
my Vim is a "Huge" build with +iconv which implies that all "standard"
encodings are recognised. For cp1252 I would usually type ":e
++enc=Windows-1252 foobar.txt" (using the same code which I see in the
Content-Type headers for email) — does your "work" system recognise that?

Best regards,
Tony.
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