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List:       vim
Subject:    Re: vimrc encoding
From:       Bram Moolenaar <Bram () moolenaar ! net>
Date:       2002-12-31 21:03:34
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Bjoern Jacke wrote:

> I switch between UTF-8 and latin1 locales from time to time. Does 
> anyone know how to  tell vim which encoding its own vimrc is? Vim 
> should know that to correctly replace text containing non-ascii 
> characters from vimrc's "ab" and "iab" commands for example. I 
> have to decide if I make my vimrc utf-8 encoded or latin1 encoded 
> and working in a locale with the other encoding will not work right. 
> It would be nice if I could just put a modeline into my vimrc and 
> tell it about it's fileencoding at that place but that does not 
> work this way. Any ideas?

Best is to avoid non-ASCII characters in the generic file and load an
encoding-specific script file when needed.

An alternative is using ":scriptencoding".  But conversion may fail
silently, thus be careful with this.

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