[Linux-disciples] vim "CONVERSION ERROR"

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2005-04-29T19:06:54-0400, 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?

Oops, for some reason I thought you were trying to -open- a text
file with unusual characters in them using Vim.  I take back what
I said about saving the file.  I would just switch to UTF-8 (set
the environment variable LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8 before you start the
terminal, assuming that you have added that locale in "dpkg-reconfigure
locales") and see what happens.

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