[Vim-latex-devel] bug in compiler/tex.vim

[PAN S. <Shi...@ne...>]

I did downloaded each version of vim-latex suite, but I cannot sucessfully 
installing it in Vim 6.2 without problem. There will be lots of run-time 
errors reported when loading scripts in latex-suite.

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Finally I realized that there must be something wrong and have to dive into 
the .vim source code myself.

The problem is found at compiler/tex.vim, Line 78-81, Tex_IgnoredWarnings

You defined a character which looks like a reversed `!' as the delimeter of 
global var g:Tex_IgnoredWarnings, but this character will definetely cause 
problem on many systems (mainly non-latin systems such as Chinese, Japanese 
and Korean).

On my system, any ASCII character with value larger than 0x9f will be treated 
as an indication of `double character', and any ASCII character between 0x80 
and 0x9f will be ignored if it is not following a character >0x9f. In another 
word, characters with highest bit `1' will be treated specially and should be 
reserved only for special use.

Since you used a `reversed !' as delimeter of global var, which has an ASCII 
value of 0xa1 (10100001), this will be treated as an indication of `double 
character' on my system, and the next character, a single quotation mark, will 
be combined with the 0xa1, which forms 0xa127, then the VIM cannot identify 
the end of the string, thus vim will always complain error compling the 
compiler/tex.vim

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Possible solutions for this are: 
1. avoid using special character, change to another character, which belongs 
to standard 7-bit ASCII range, i.e. between 0x20 and 0x7f

2. or if you do want to keep 0xa1 as the delimeter, append a chacter so that 
it won't eat up the single quotationi mark after that, and letting vim 
compiling this file sucessfully (not sure if it runs okay, but should compile 
ok, and uses can change this in `texrc').

3. texrc should be altered as well...

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Thanks.
Pan Shizhu