Hi!
I work with vim and latex to write files in different languages (French, German, English). That's why my file are encoded in latin1. But vim has UTF-8 as default encoding which makes troubles when I create a new file (with old files vim detects automatically the right encoding).

I first tried to change the vim configuration in vimrc:
But then vim wouldn't write any accent correctly anymore (things like "é" or "è"...). So I switched back to the default configuration. Then I converted my file in latin1:

It works fine now but I'm not satisfied with the solution because I don't want to have to convert each new file I create!
How can I do ? Can I have vim in UTF-8 and still "keep" the same keyboard?

In the SlackDocs we have a page about localization, there's also explained how one can define shortcuts for changing the keyboard layout. http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:...keyboard_setup Take a look at "Using multiple keyboard layouts".

But I'm not sure if this meets your requirements, but what I understand is, that you want to toggle between and which can also be done in a terminal withorrespectively.

Markus

Well, the problem is: right my dead keys work fine. Only when I sent the encoding to Latin1 in vim, then all my accents keys don't work anymore under vim.

Are you using vim in a terminal? which terminal? or gvim?

Markus

Why do you think you need Latin-1? Every character in that encoding is present in Unicode at exactly the same code-point! And Unicode will give you the French œ as well.

I use vim in a terminal, MATE-Terminal 1.2.1.

If I don't use Latin1, French seems to work but then I get error messages for German! So far Latin1 seems to be the only encoding that makes everybody happy.

I never use dead keys myself. The Compose key seems more convenient: Comp + " + a for ä.