How to edit UTF-8 file in VIM ?

naihe2010 · 09-27-2006, 04:31 AM

When I use Windows & IE, I downloaded lots of html file, and them be encoded by UTF-8.

Now, I want to edit them in VIM.

But, all the Unicode characters are wrong.

I use "set encoding=utf-8", but it doesn't work well. That is, all the
wrong characters are changed, but they are wrong, too.

How to solve this problem?

addtion:
I use Slackware+rxvt+vim

exvor · 09-27-2006, 09:58 AM

When I save a source file it saves as ANSI not UTF-8 unless your changeing the encoding or something ?

silent_cutthroat · 09-27-2006, 10:39 AM

:e ++enc=utf-8 <your-file-name>

I use utf-8 locale and don't have any problems with utf-8.

tuxdev · 09-27-2006, 12:18 PM

Slackware doesn't build UTF-8 support into vim. You can get a version with utf-8 support from the Japanese on Slack project, build it yourself, or perhaps convert it to EUC and back again.

naihe2010 · 09-27-2006, 07:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by silent_cutthroat

:e ++enc=utf-8 <your-file-name>

I use utf-8 locale and don't have any problems with utf-8.

How to use utf-8 locale ?

naihe2010 · 09-27-2006, 07:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tuxdev

Slackware doesn't build UTF-8 support into vim. You can get a version with utf-8 support from the Japanese on Slack project, build it yourself, or perhaps convert it to EUC and back again.

I downloaded the vim7.0's source file, but I can't find the utf-8 support in the "./configure --help".

and this is my vim's version

Code:

VIM - Vi IMproved 6.3 (2004 June 7, compiled Sep 10 2005 15:25:19)
Included patches: 1-86
Compiled by root@midas
Big version with GTK2 GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
+arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent 
+clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info +comments 
+cryptv +cscope +dialog_con_gui +diff +digraphs +dnd -ebcdic +emacs_tags +eval 
+ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path +folding -footer 
+fork() +gettext -hangul_input +iconv +insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap
 +libcall +linebreak +lispindent +listcmds +localmap +menu +mksession 
+modify_fname +mouse +mouseshape +mouse_dec +mouse_gpm -mouse_jsbterm 
+mouse_netterm +mouse_xterm +multi_byte +multi_lang +netbeans_intg -osfiletype 
+path_extra -perl +postscript +printer -python +quickfix +rightleft -ruby 
+scrollbind +signs +smartindent -sniff +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax 
+tag_binary +tag_old_static -tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse 
+textobjects +title +toolbar +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual 
+visualextra +viminfo +vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu +windows +writebackup 
+X11 -xfontset +xim +xsmp_interact +xterm_clipboard -xterm_save 
   system vimrc file: "$VIM/vimrc"
     user vimrc file: "$HOME/.vimrc"
      user exrc file: "$HOME/.exrc"
  system gvimrc file: "$VIM/gvimrc"
    user gvimrc file: "$HOME/.gvimrc"
    system menu file: "$VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim"
  fall-back for $VIM: "/usr/share/vim"
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_GTK  -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2/config -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include     -O2  -I/usr/X11R6/include      
Linking: gcc  -L/usr/X11R6/lib   -L/usr/local/lib -o vim   -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0   -lXt -lncurses -lgpm

It has a "+multi_byte", and is it really not build utf-8 support?

silent_cutthroat · 09-28-2006, 01:36 AM

The vim online docs - http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/mbyte.html

Quote:

Originally Posted by naihe2010

How to use utf-8 locale ?

You set the LANG environment variable to something like en_US.utf-8, to see the supported locales - 'locale -a'. LANG is set in some of the scripts run on startup, to change your locale for all the users you shoud set LANG from there, but I can't remeber exactly where. Look at /etc/profile.d/ and /etc/rc.d/.

Also see the locale man page.