[Vimcdoc-translate] Re: Re: Re: help with iconv

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

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:40:22PM +0000, Wenzhi Liang wrote:
> It turns out that (on my sytem at least), vim ignores the $LANG env var and
> set the 'enc' option based on $LC_ALL. So if I have $LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8 it
> is OK.  So there are two ways to do this:

FYI, here on my box, Vim does honor the $LANG env var.

> But I think this is easier for the GUI user and not so much for the console
> user? What do you think wandys?

Yes, terminal euc-cn users would frown at it but i'm okay with that.

> This sounds OK too and it would definitely please both crowds. But it doens't
> please me. :-). It just feels strange to have two releases for one thing. But
> then again, who am I asking to be pleased? Pondering...

I dunno about the windoze/DOS side but for Linux/*BSDs, we can do the
conversion on-the-fly in our install script and this is transparent to
users.  But heck, i doubt it's worth all the effort.

> So right now, I'd lean towards an all utf solution.

Ack.


One of my favorite quotes is:

   What the standard is does not matter (in fact all standards suck), as
   long as we _have a standard_ to follow.
                                                   --  Anonymous

So hope we can settle this enc-cn thing ASAP and get to improve our
docs.  It's good to see our ML gets noisy again and welcome new members
as well as old friends to 'Go Wild'. 

Will do some review later on if time permits.

Thanks & Regards,

-- 
Alecs King