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List:       vim
Subject:    Re: Macintosh character encoding on Unix
From:       Luc St-Louis <lucs () pobox ! com>
Date:       2004-02-28 21:24:49
Message-ID: 20040228222536.GC2368 () monk
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 04:14:44PM -0500, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
> Luc St-Louis broke the silence of shunyata and uttered:
> 
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 03:29:53PM -0500, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia
> > wrote:
> >> Luc St-Louis broke the silence of shunyata and uttered:
> >
> > My version of Vim (6.2, patches applied up to 98), does not seem to
> > possess the 'macroman' encoding. Will an upgrade help, or is something
> 
> It depends a lot on your iconv implementation and if the binary was
> compiled with multibyte support or not. Assuming you have GNU iconv (it
> is integrated in Linux glibc), the names mac, macintosh, macroman, and
> csmacintosh will work, else, you are out of luck and need to compile
> your own (hint, use a-a-p or a CVS snapshot).

Ah, okay. I will investigate this later this week.

> > else needed? (Also, the command shown complains of "E172: Only one
> > file name allowed".)
> 
> change to ':e ++enc=blah %', memory is one of the first things to go, ya
> know.

Yeah, I do know :-)

Thanks!

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