On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:28:22PM +0100, Oliver Bleutgen wrote:
I'm having some problems using ExternalEditor/gvim with umlauts. The irritating thing is that this is the first time this happens. [...] So, either I have to solve the mystery how to get rid of the UTF-8 encoding, or I have to find out how to teach external editor/gvim UTF-8.
Any hints/comments?
I suggest that you use UTF-8, or you'll encounter additional problems later (e.g. when you find that you need the Euro sign somewhere). To edit UTF-8 text with gvim use the following settings: set encoding=UTF-8 set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-c-*-iso10646-1 " any font with iso10646-1 enocoding will do set termencoding=ISO-8859-1 " depends on your locale, if you set " this wrong, you'll be able to see but " not type Marius Gedminas -- Codeworks is available for Zope consulting -- http://www.codeworks.lt/