Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 04:02:46
Message-Id: 20050805035934.GA31003@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] utf-8 fixes for metadata.xml by Georgi Georgiev
1 On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:46:13PM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
2 > What does "set enc?" say?
3 :set enc?
4 encoding=latin1
5
6 > Anyway, setting enc=utf-8 when your terminal is using something else
7 > makes the output look like shit. Furthermore, you wouldn't be able to
8 > input any non-ascii characters anyway (or maybe you will, depending on
9 > your locale, but they would appear as garbage on the screen). If you're
10 > not going to go anywhere near non-ascii text it might be OK.
11 I don't plan to edit any non-ascii text in my $EDITOR of choice. The
12 only place I ever write non-ASCII stuff is a word processor.
13
14 > I guess you're better off using gvim if "locale -k charmap" doesn't say
15 > UTF-8 in your term.
16 I'm using aterm, and I refuse to use a graphical vim.
17
18 $ locale -k charmap
19 charmap="ANSI_X3.4-1968"
20
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