[Vim-latex-devel] Latex Suite utf8 problem (LookupCharacter error)

[Stephen W. <sw...@gm...>]

Hello All,

I've encountered a problem when using encoding=utf-8 with filetype=tex. I
use Vim 7.1 and I've upgraded to the latest LatexSuite (March 25, 2006). In
insert mode, if I type \ (backslash) I get the following error message:

Error detected while processing function <SNR>28_LookupCharacter:
line 12:
E54: unmatched \(

I can only reproduce the problem when the filetype is tex (so I presume the
problem is in vim-latex plugins) AND encoding is utf-8.

If encoding=latin-1 and fileencoding=utf-8, I encounter no problem (the file
is converted to uft-8 on writing). But on my home machine I normally have
encoding set to utf-8 (same as locale)... so I can get around this by adding
the comment line at the end of the file:
% vim:encoding=latin-1:fileencoding=utf-8:

I searched the VIM mailing list for a similar problem: in the thread
entitled " new weirdness with vim-latex" started on 23/03/2006
(http://marc.info/?l=vim&m=114307450126576&w=2
) it was said the problem is with plugin/imaps.vim . I had a look at line 12
of the function LookupCharacter in that file, but I must admit I don't
understand it (despite the comments) and I can't tell if there is a problem.

For the moment, I get around this with the comment line at the end of my
latex files, but I was wondering if there's a more permanent and better
solution, and if anyone else has encountered this problem.

Thanks,
Steve