[Vim-latex-devel] latex-suite and vim in utf8 (fwd)

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

Hello,

I am forwarding this to the group hoping that someone has a better idea
than I about whats going on...

The problem Andrey reports below is quite a show-stopper imo. I tried
telling him to set g:Imap_PlaceHolderStart =3D '<', but even that doesn't
work... The reason is that vim seems to do strange things with
encoding... (or I dont understand encoding very well).

Please try out the following steps:

1. open a new .vim file with encoding set to latin1.
2. type in the following stuff:

    let MyVar =3D '=AB'

    if MyVar =3D~ '=AB'
        echo 'does contain quotes'
    else
        echo 'no quotes here'
    endif

3. trying sourcing it (:so %)
    you will see 'does contain quotes'

4. now set encoding to utf8. (:set encoding=3Dutf8)

5. source it again.
    this time you will see 'no quotes here'

Could someone explain?

Thanks,

Srinath

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:51:49 +0600
From: Andrey R. Urazov <co...@ng...>
To: sr...@fa..., mi...@wp...
Subject: latex-suite and vim in utf8

Dear Srinath and Mikolaj,

I'm using the wonderful package latex-suite (many thanks for it) with
vim 6.1 in utf8 mode.  And I have some problems with diversified
abbreviations.  For example, when I type {} I got {=E4}=AB=BB
({<a umlaut>}<opening double quote><closing double quote>) instead.
I think the expected behavior would be typing {} and putting the cursor
between the braces, but in utf8 mode all the control sequences have lost
their special meaning and I get what I get. Think, this won't be a rare
problem since with the issue of Red Hat 8.0 many users will use utf8.

I wonder whether these macros could be rewritten avoiding control
sequences. Is it really possible?

P.S. And again thanks a lot for the package. It makes preparation of
LaTeX documents so handy!

Best regards,
  Andrey Urazov
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jeudi 28 novembre, 2002, 15:45:10 +0600 - Andrey R. Urazov (mailto:coola@ng=
s.ru)