Re: How to convert plain text from code page Windows 1250 to code page ISO 8859-2?

On Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at 10:31:49 AM UTC-5, Igor Forca wrote:
> VIM 7.4 ON UBUNTU 14.04
>
> 1. Open Vim with command:
> vim
>
> 2. Set internal Vim encoding to UTF-8:
> :set encoding=utf-8
>
> 3. Open file that is encoded using Windows 1250 code page:
> :e ++enc=cp1250 test.txt
> Note: In status bar there is message: [converted]
>
> 4. Change file encoding to ISO 8859-2 code page:
> :set fileencoding=iso-8859-2
>
> 5. Save the file and actually do the code page conversion:
> :w
> Note: In status bar there is message: [converted] written
>
> Above steps works perfectly without a problem. But this is on Vim for Ubuntu.
>
>
> Now a problem.
>
>
> gVIM 7.4 ON WINDOWS 7
>
> All steps the same as above. But at step 5 when I try to save a file I get an error:
> "test.txt" E213: Cannot convert (add! to write without conversion).
> See print-screen of error message: https://i.imgur.com/ZuVRpOK.png
> See print-screen of gVim for Windows version: https://i.imgur.com/uWNE8ce.png
>
> Any idea what is wrong on my Vim for Windows?

Windows encoding names are weird.

According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-2) Windows' codepage 28592 is equivalent to ISO-8859-2/Latin2.

So, try setting fenc to cp28592 when you're in Windows, rather than the canonical name.

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