Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Now, you tell me!

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

Wow! So all along, we could have used a :scriptencoding latin1 and
gotten away with it... Interesting! Ho Well, I think its still worth
doing what we did...

Srinath

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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Benji Fisher wrote:

>       I was browsing the vim docs, and I ran across the :scriptencoding
> command.  Try sourcing a file with the lines
>
> scriptencoding latin1
> let fooChar =3D "=AB"
> let barChar =3D "\xab"
>
> and then try
>
> :echo fooChar barChar
>
> I suppose it will look pretty boring if you have a version with
> -multi_byte but if you have m-b support and 'encoding' is set to
> "utf-8", then fooChar looks good and barChar is an invalid byte.
>
>       There will still be problems if the user wants "=AB" and "=BB"
> characters in the file or (less likely, I think) uses an encoding that
> cannot translate these characters, but I think this is the right way to
> include funky characters.  When we write more of doc/imaps.txt , I think
> we sho