... They don't break down, they're just imperfect. ... Vim should support UTF-8 in 9x, too. ... It works well for many uses; I use enc=utf-8 exclusively, to...
1002
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 13, 2003 9:38 am
... The default that Vim starts with is 'encoding' set to the active codepage and 'fileencoding' set to "ucs-bom". This means it falls back to 'encoding' when...
1003
Camillo Särs
ged@...
Oct 13, 2003 10:00 am
... Well, if I can't write a filename the way I need to write it, I have a problem. Fortunately this is mostly theoretic for me, but for some users resorting...
1004
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 13, 2003 10:55 am
... On Windows NT/XP there are also restrictions, especially when using non-NTFS filesystems. There was a discussion about this in the Linux UTF-8 maillist a...
1005
Camillo Särs
ged@...
Oct 13, 2003 11:51 am
... Right, I forgot about those. AFAIK, the fuctions do not fail silently in those cases, so it's just (yet) more work. Essentially, file names then come...
1006
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 13, 2003 12:23 pm
... Because every fopen(), stat() etc. will have to be changed. ... This only means extra work, since an "if (encoding == ...)" has to be added to select...
1007
Camillo Särs
ged@...
Oct 13, 2003 12:59 pm
... Right. You're not using Windows apis, of course. But to do things correctly, you would have to make sure that the fopen() etc. implementations [in...
1008
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Oct 13, 2003 3:39 pm
... [...] ... [...] Glenn Maynard wants 'encoding' to default to "utf-8" regardless of the active codepage. IMHO this would require 'termencoding' to default,...
1009
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Oct 13, 2003 3:52 pm
... [...] ... Took me some figuring too. A few hours ago I uploaded my solution to vim-onlline (set_utf8.vim, ...
1010
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 13, 2003 6:47 pm
... A file name may appear in a file (e.g., a list of files in a README file). And I don't know what happens with file names on removable media (e.g., a CD)....
1011
Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Oct 13, 2003 9:58 pm
Note that I've upgraded, and I'm not having problems with files saving incorrectly in enc=utf-8. The remaining problems are mostly cosmetic, except for not...
1012
Camillo Särs
ged@...
Oct 14, 2003 5:54 am
... Both floppies, CDs and network file systems are mounted by windows, and "some" translation of file names happens. AFAIK, you should be able to access all...
1013
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 14, 2003 12:19 pm
... So, what you suggest is to keep using the ordinary file system functions. But we must make sure that the file name is then in the active codepage...
1014
Camillo Särs
ged@...
Oct 14, 2003 12:51 pm
... While that may sound attractive at first, I would strongly dissuade from that solution. I consider it to be a myth that using multilingual filenames on...
1015
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 14, 2003 2:03 pm
... Vim not only supports Unicode but also many other encodings. When Vim would only use Unicode it would be simple, but that's not the situation. And above...
1016
Glenn Maynard
glenn@...
Oct 14, 2003 8:56 pm
... It's not at all a myth if you want code that is 1: portable and 2: works on 9x, too. (If you can deal with nonportable code, you can use Windows's TCHAR...
1017
Camillo Särs
ged@...
Oct 15, 2003 5:51 am
... Agreed. There's no way around that. ... Sounds very promising. It would be really great if it turns out that the changes are fairly minor. That way...
1018
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 15, 2003 10:12 am
... It's more complicated then that. You can have filenames in the ACP, 'encoding' and Unicode. Filenames are stored in various places inside Vim, which...
1019
Valery Kondakoff
strauss@...
Oct 15, 2003 1:59 pm
Hi! Can I ask you two questions, related to gVIM encoding settings? I'm using gVIM 6.2 (WinXP Pro). There are my encoding-related _vimrc settings: set...
1020
Camillo Särs
ged@...
Oct 17, 2003 10:25 am
... [...] termencoding was missing, and it should be set to your current code page. If you change encoding without having termencoding set, the results on...
1021
Valery Kondakoff
strauss@...
Oct 17, 2003 12:54 pm
Hello, Camillo! Friday, October 17, 2003, 2:24:58 PM, you wrote: CS> set termencoding=cp1251 CS> set encoding=utf-8 CS> set fileencoding=cp1251 CS> ... CS> and...
1022
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Oct 17, 2003 1:20 pm
... Weird. On my W98 system (gvim 6.2.98) I just tested, on an already-open gvim where encoding=utf-8 termencoding=latin1 the command noremap <M-o> :echo...
1023
Motonobu Ichimura
famao@...
Oct 24, 2003 2:24 am
Hi I updated a patch to enable hardcopy with multibyte chars for vim-6.2. (honestly, this patch is my first attempt for vim 6.2, so in a very early stage.) ...
1024
Yasuhiro Matsumoto
mattn_jp@...
Oct 24, 2003 3:34 am
Motonobu Ichimura - ... Hi. I tried your patch. and it works fine for me. I add one correction to this patch. shift_jis encoding has some characters which...
1025
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 24, 2003 10:46 am
... Sounds good. Since I hardly use multi-byte files I'm not a good tester for this patch. Did you communicate with Mike Williams? He did most of the...
1026
Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Oct 24, 2003 12:31 pm
... Talking about printing... This still requires PostScript IIUC. Are there any plans for making 'printencoding' functional under Windows, which doesn't use...
1027
Mike Williams
mike.williams@...
Oct 24, 2003 12:38 pm
Hi, I'll have a look at the patch. I have been snowed under with work this Summer but I have a couple of weeks vacation shortly and plan to sort out multi-byte...
1028
Camillo Särs
ged@...
Oct 24, 2003 12:55 pm
... Mozilla seems to do a fairly good job at combining several different fonts to display Unicode sample pages. I believe the basic algorithm is "if this font...
1029
Mike Williams
mike.williams@...
Oct 24, 2003 1:37 pm
... This is relatively straightforward, PS font files have associated descriptor files that are relatively easy to parse, but the decision to date has been to...
1030
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Nov 2, 2003 8:01 pm
[This is not directly about Vim, skip this if you don't care about Vim's charity] I have updated the page for the Lord of the Rings Video and DVD. The second...
