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List:       vim
Subject:    Re: multibyte and 'encoding' and 'fileencoding'
From:       Bram Moolenaar <Bram () moolenaar ! net>
Date:       2002-12-31 21:16:59
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Benji Fisher wrote:

>       I finally decided that the display problem is caused by a font 
> problem.  I assume you will get to my note on this in due course.

Glad it's not a Vim problem.

>       I am surprised that a file is not supposed to contain a raw 
> "\xe4".  What is to stop me from doing
> 
> :put=\"xe4\"

You can, but the result is an invalid byte.  Vim uses invalid bytes to
recognize that a file is NOT utf-8, thus you get yourself into trouble.

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