Sunday, July 6, 2014

Re: Encoding and Fileencoding of a latin1 file

rameo wrote:

> Thank you very much Ben for your great explication.
> Not easy to understand.
>
> I still don't understand why my vimrc and menu.vim,
> containing both french characters as "œu", could
> be read in latin1 in the past, without any problem
> or error.
> (The only encoding line I had in my vimrc file at
> that moment was "set encoding="latin1")

The ligature œ is missing in latin1.
So it's not suitable for French, especially
since œ appears in frequent words.

ISO-8859-15 is almost like latin1 but contains
all French characters. Windows-1252 also
contains œ. But Unicode is preferable
nowadays.

Regards
Dominique

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