[Linux-disciples] vim "CONVERSION ERROR"

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2005-04-29T12:06:12-0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Every now and again, typically when I copy text from a
> Microsoft Word document into vim, vim will say "CONVERSION
> ERROR" in the modeline. I just realized today that if I look
> carefully in the vim doc, I'll see an upside-down question
> mark on characters that vim had a hard time converting. If I
> fix those characters, the "CONVERSION ERROR" goes away.
> 
> My question is: can vim be made more helpful? Can it tell
> me, "We have a conversion error on line 20," for instance?

I wonder if it would help for you to save the erroneously converted file
back out and compare the text before and after the roundtrip.

	Ken

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