[Linux-disciples] vim "CONVERSION ERROR"

[Dylan Thurston]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 07:06:54PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:08:57PM -0400, Chung-chieh Shan wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I'm sorry, I think I'm getting my antecedents confused. So
> let's adopt some definitions:
> 
> A := "The Word document that I'm pasting in"
> B := "The vim document that failed to convert properly"
> 
> So I paste A into B, try to save B, presumably get an error
> ... then do what?

One thing in the background here is that 'B' is actually two objects
(going purely by the error messages here):

B1 := "The internal vim document, in Unicode"
B2 := "The external vim document, encoded as your locale specifies"

The error in the conversion seems to be from B1 to B2, not from A to
B1.

Hmm, now I'm not sure what Ken was suggesting, put perhaps it includes
saving the document B1 in utf-8 encoding, which will have none of the
file conversion problems.

Peace,
	Dylan
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