[Vimcdoc-translate] Re: Re: Re: 0.8.0-beta1

[Alecs K. <al...@pe...>]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:38:56AM +0100, Wenzhi Liang wrote:
> > I _was_ kinda misleading here.  The truth is that, euc is not gbk but
> > gb2312.  Some of our docs contain some 'evil' characters that have been
> > converted from gbk.  But these characters are gbk-only [1] and cannot be
> > successfully converted to enc-cn (aka gb2312). Hence the problem arises.
> 
> That explains why on Slackware if I set LANG to zh_CN.gbk, things are OK. Is 
> that a limitation of Vim though?

Kind of.  Vim doesnt have a 'gbk' for 'enc' option now.  Before that and
before everyone's using utf-8, we are better off keeping our files
enc-cn friendly.

> > When doing translation, remember to run the following command
> > 
> > $ iconv -f utf-8 -t euc-cn file.txt >/dev/null
> > 
> > to check if your doc is enc-cn friendly.
> Can you add this to the guide.txt? Thanks

Will do.

-- 
Alecs King