Re: Help with print encoding

On 14/02/2017 07:25, Lifepillar wrote:
> On 13/02/2017 18:08, Mike Williams wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Have you tried setting printencoding to macroman?
>
> Yes, and the result is the same.

Well it was worth a shot.

>> The reason you see the upside-down question marks is because VIM
>> converts the buffer content from utf-8 to latin1, but the latin1
>> character set does not include the left and right single quotes and VIM
>> will change them to upside-down quotes so they stand out. On Macs there
>> is special code to convert utf-8 to Mac encoding where the left and
>> right quotes exist, so that should work for you. Unfortunately I don't
>> have access to a Mac to confirm this.
>
> I do not know much about print encondings, but... wouldn't it be
> possible to define new print encodings, namely a UTF-8 print encoding?

That would make life easier, but history is against you I'm afraid.

> My current workaround is to use :TOhtml then print the resulting HTML
> from a browser, but I'd like to have a direct way.

That would be nicer. I'll raise it on the vim dev list as I have some
ideas.

TTFN

Mike
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