How to switch from ISO-latin1( 8859-1) to UTF-8 and reciprocally?

xpucto · 05-14-2008, 10:13 AM

Hi!

when compiling my latex files I have trouble because some of my computers still work under latin1 (Suse 9) and the more recent installations (opensuse 10 and FC8) work under UTF-8. I use vim as editor.

I would like to know how I may the encoding system in vim.

thanks.

berbae · 05-14-2008, 11:42 AM

There is the 'iconv' command to convert the encoding of characters in files.
Look at the manual for that command:
iconv -cs -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 file > newfile
iconv -cs -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 file > newfile

xpucto · 05-17-2008, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by berbae

There is the 'iconv' command to convert the encoding of characters in files.
Look at the manual for that command:
iconv -cs -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 file > newfile
iconv -cs -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 file > newfile

I don't want only to convert some specific files, I want to be abble to change the default encoding of vim. How may I do this?

berbae · 05-17-2008, 04:50 PM

After a search at the Vim site, I found that answers page
It contains what you are looking for.
I didn't know the ':e ++enc=' command which permits to change the encoding of a file.