[Zope] ExternalEditor and Umlauts

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the hints. But the problem is that this method doesn't work 
when you have this mixed ISO-8859-1/UTF-8 situation. If I do what you 
describe here, the server which mozilla doesn't identify as UTF-8 
enoding (the development server in my scenario) won't work. And seeing 
the problems talked about in zope-dev about zope's UTF-8 compability, 
I'm not sure I want to walk this road now for all servers here.

cheers,
oliver