Re: [vile] How to convert \?nn strings to characters?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Chris G wrote:

> I have a number of files created a long time ago which have 'extended
> ASCII' characters in them which are encoded in a way that vile doesn't
> understand (at least the way I have it set up it doesn't).
>
> They appear as follows in vile and xvile:-
>
>    \?B1       \?B9      \?A1
>
> the four character sequence above is what vile/xvile shows for a single byte
> of my files.  Is there any way I can get vile/xvile to recognise and display
> these characters and/or a way to get the files saved in a more currently 
> recognised
> encoding.  All my current systems use a UTF-8 locale.

If your system has the corresponding 8-bit locale installed, then

:setl fk=8bit

for the given buffer should should the characters as you intended.

For _saving_ in a different encoding... vile doesn't really do
that (recode can do it).

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