Re: How gVIM can handle UTF like notepad

On Monday, October 10, 2016 at 10:33:26 AM UTC-5, Erhy wrote:
> Hello,
> for administer Windows I would like to use gVIM.
> But there are some UTF encoded files.
> Opening such files gVim decoded them and save the without BOMB.
> Are there setting to have the same behavior as Windows notepad?
> Thank you for tips
> Erhy

I guess, you're asking how to save the file with a BOM? For that, ":set bomb" before saving will do the trick.

To detect this automatically, be sure that you have "set encoding=utf-8", "setglobal bomb", and "set fileencodings=ucs-bomb,utf-8,latin1" or similar in your .vimrc.

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Working_with_Unicode

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