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

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

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:30:26AM +1200, Carlos Z.F. Liu wrote:
> In GBK environment, users can get GBK support for vim by "enc=cp936".  
> It works in both *nix and windows. But if you search on internet, most
> documents and tutorials suggest only "euc-cn".

At least in mbyte.txt:
>2   cp936       simplified Chinese (Windows only)
>2   euc-cn      simplified Chinese (Unix only)
>...
>2   2byte-{name} Unix: any double-byte encoding (Vim specific name)

So i think the rite/safe/official way to use GBK on Unix is to set
enc=2byte-gbk.  Vim will strip the leading '2byte-' and then pass 'gbk'
to iconv_open().  Tested.  Worked fine.

Anyway, too many ppl are using euc-cn, so it's better to always keep our
docs enc-cn friendly.

-- 
Alecs King