On 08/07/09 22:48, Aleksey wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I'm using few MONO apps (Nemerle compiler and COCO/R parser generator)
> through compiler plugins in VIM under Linux, and the problem is that
> they produce output starting with FEFF.
> I had this problem about a half a year ago and being (and staying) a
> newbie, thought that the problem was with *errorformat* but didn't
> cope defining it correctly - not sure if it is possible.
> I found workaround, setting LANG=en_US in compiler call command.
>
> I have encoding and termencoding set to 'utf-8' and locale is
> 'en_US.utf8'.
>
> Is there a better way to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks

Make sure your 'fileencodings' option (plural) starts with "ucs-bom". In
that case, for editfiles at least (not sure about quickfix error files),
Vim will recognise the Unicode codepoint U+FEFF (known as the BOM for
Byte Order Mark though actually it's more than that) when it happens at
the very start of a file, and set 'fileencoding' (singular) and 'bomb'
accordingly for that file, as follows:

Lead bytes (hex) 'fileencoding' 'bomb'
EF BB BF utf-8 bomb
00 00 FE FF ucs-4 bomb
FF FE 00 00 ucs-4le bomb
FE FF utf-16 bomb
FF FE utf-16le bomb
anything else not yet known nobomb

As you can see, the BOM allows us to identify all Unicode encodings
(endianness included, but treating UCS-2 as a particular case of UTF-16,
which it is) assuming that no little-endian UTF-16 file will ever start
with a NULL codepoint, which I think is a reasonable assumption. ("Not
yet known" in the table above means "try the next entry in
'fileencodings'".)

If, after trying it, you find that it doesn't work for the quickfix
errorfile, come back to report it, and in that case maybe Bram will pass
by and add it to his TODO list. But even if he does, don't set your
hopes too high: it's a very long list, see |todo.txt| in the Vim help
(the file is currently 4705 lines long as of 2 July 2009, but I didn't
count how many todo items (which should be fewer ;-) ) are in it.

IIUC, even if 'fileencodings' doesn't work for quickfix error files,
setting LC_MESSAGES should be enough (LANG is used as a default for any
LC_<something> which is unset, or LC_ALL if present overrides any other
LC_* even if present). Maybe even just using ":language messages en-US"
or ":lang mess C" near the top of your vimrc could be enough.



Best regards,
Tony.
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