Re^7: encoding problem om Ubuntu Linux

What are the values you get when typing

:set encoding
:set fileencoding
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in vim?

What do you get when you simply enter locale on the command line?

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Re^8: encoding problem om Ubuntu Linux by j.goor (Acolyte) on Jun 20, 2008 at 12:42 UTC
root@slarti:/media/usbdisk/music_org/scripts/test# localev LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= :set encoding encoding=utf-8 :set fileencoding fileencoding=latin1	[reply]
Re^9: encoding problem om Ubuntu Linux by moritz (Cardinal) on Jun 20, 2008 at 12:48 UTC
Well, if vim says the file is encoded in latin1, I believe that. Try to use Encode to or `open my $handle, '<:encoding(ISO-8859-1)', $file` to decode it, and then re-encode it as utf-8. It also explains why `cat`'ting the file doesn't display the file names correctly. See my reply on your original question for more details on de- and encoding.	[reply] [d/l] [select]