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

[James He <ic...@gm...>]

On 11/20/05, Alecs King <al...@pe...> wrote:
> This means we translators have to
> 1) edit our file utf-8 native. we dont manually do any conversion
> whatsoever.
> 2) make sure the utf8-encoded file _can_ be successfully converted to
> gb2312, since gb2312 is the very subset.
>
> I think fileencodings=3Dutf8 is the rite way to go.  FYI, it does not
> treat _all_ files as utf-8.  It just treats utf8 (which includes ascii)
> files as utf8.
>
> Well, this only ensures the condition 1) above.  If you write some 'evil'
> characters, the file still cannot be converted to gb2312.
>
> I wonder if there are similar tools on Windoze like this:
> $ iconv -f utf-8 -t euc-cn file > /dev/null
> which can help you check the validity.

Should we add this guide line to data/guides.txt? :-)

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Best regards,

James He