Re: (OT) vim, osx, text encoding (was: magic diacritic markup?)

[Graham Percival]

On 28-Jul-05, at 4:20 AM, Trevor Baca wrote:

> > E519: Option not supported: encoding?
> > (same result for ":set encoding")
>
> OK, that's just odd. vim definitely takes an encoding and for unicode
> what you're looking for is encoding=utf-8. Maybe your previous version
> of vim wasn't compiled with the multi_byte option set (more below), or

Aha!  that's it.

spark:~ gperciva$ /usr/bin/vim --version
VIM - Vi IMproved 6.2 (2003 Jun 1, compiled Sep 12 2003 18:48:28)
Compiled by address@hidden
Normal version without GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
**snip**
-mouse_netterm +mouse_xterm -multi_byte +multi_lang -netbeans_intg 
-osfiletype


>   VIM - Vi IMproved 6.2 (2003 Jun 1, compiled Mar 21 2005 02:12:42)
>   Compiled by address@hidden

I wonder why they didn't upgrade to 6.3; it was released 2004 June 7.
Oh well.

Thanks,
- Graham