From ef8706fb84cfe8bd58b1b26b0742e42caf09655b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "K.Takata" Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 18:40:49 +0200 Subject: patch 8.2.2915: MS-Windows: when using "default" for encoding utf-8 is used Problem: MS-Windows: when using "default" for encoding utf-8 is used. Solution: Use the system encoding. (Ken Takata, closes #8300) --- runtime/doc/options.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'runtime') diff --git a/runtime/doc/options.txt b/runtime/doc/options.txt index b2b79cb081..d3adbd0c90 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/options.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/options.txt @@ -3116,9 +3116,10 @@ A jump table for the options with a short description can be found at |Q_op|. because Vim cannot detect an error, thus the encoding is always accepted. The special value "default" can be used for the encoding from the - environment. This is the default value for 'encoding'. It is useful - when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" and your environment uses a - non-latin1 encoding, such as Russian. + environment. On MS-Windows this is the system encoding. Otherwise + this is the default value for 'encoding'. It is useful when + 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" and your environment uses a non-latin1 + encoding, such as Russian. When 'encoding' is "utf-8" and a file contains an illegal byte sequence it won't be recognized as UTF-8. You can use the |8g8| command to find the illegal byte sequence. -- cgit v1.2.3