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WojtekO

04-11-2012 12:32 AM

How to make VIM display french letters?

I have some files that I'd like to be able to edit in vim, unfortunately they have some french characters in the content with accents, and vim destroys them.

I get

Quote:

une entreprise spÃ©cialisÃ©e

instead of

Quote:

une entreprise spécialisée

If I do a cat on that file, it displays the french characters OK.

I tried doing in vim:

Quote:

:set encoding=utf-8

But it had no effect.

How could I solve this issue?

Thank You

EricTRA

04-11-2012 12:52 AM

Hi,

When in vim, what's the output of the following:

Code:

:verbose set enc? tenc?

and

Code:

:lang

Kind regards,

Eric

linuxlover.chaitanya

04-11-2012 12:53 AM

See if this link helps setting up the locales in vim.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...anguage-in-vim

WojtekO

04-11-2012 11:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EricTRA (Post 4649853)

Hi,

When in vim, what's the output of the following:

Code:

:verbose set enc? tenc?

and

Code:

:lang

Kind regards,

Eric

The first one returns this:

Code:

encoding=utf-8

termencoding=

And the second this:

Code:

Current language: "en_US.UTF-8"

I tried doing:

Code:

:set termencoding=utf-8

Which then displayed this:

Code:

:verbose set enc? tenc?

  encoding=utf-8

  termencoding=utf-8

But the opened document still had the broken characters.
Re-opening it, cleared the termencoding value back to blank.

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxlover.chaitanya (Post 4649854)

See if this link helps setting up the locales in vim.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...anguage-in-vim

I looked at this and it seems it's for changing vim's language for menus and messages.
I want to keep mine in english, but be able to display french characters.
Thanks

EricTRA

04-11-2012 01:42 PM

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. And what's the output of

Code:

locale

Kind regards,

Eric

WojtekO

04-11-2012 03:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EricTRA (Post 4650391)

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. And what's the output of

Code:

locale

Kind regards,

Eric

Here is the output:

Code:

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=

Thank You

EricTRA

04-11-2012 09:40 PM

Hi,

Very strange, I have almost the same settings and output except for the :lang in vim and I can open a document with French text without loosing any accented characters. All this using all en_US.UTF-8 with a Spanish keyboard. Can you run the file command on the file and post the output, to check what encoding the file is in?

Code:

file <yourfilewithaccents>

--EDIT--

Just found another thing that might be useful. When you have the file with the French text open in vim type the following and post the output:

Code:

:set fileencoding?

to find out which file encoding vim detects on the file.

Kind regards,

Eric

WojtekO

04-12-2012 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EricTRA (Post 4650706)

Code:

file <yourfilewithaccents>

--EDIT--

Just found another thing that might be useful. When you have the file with the French text open in vim type the following and post the output:

Code:

:set fileencoding?

to find out which file encoding vim detects on the file.

Kind regards,

Eric

the file command returns:

Code:

ISO-8859 text, with no line terminators

:set fileencoding? returns:

Code:

fileencoding=latin1

Thanks for pointing me to the right direction!

Code:

vim ~/.vimrc

set encoding=iso-8859-1

made it work, I can now properly see the accented characters.

Thanks again,

EricTRA

04-13-2012 12:50 AM

Hi,

Nice to hear you've got it working. Thanks for marking the thread as solved.

Kind regards,

Eric

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