[Linux-disciples] vim "CONVERSION ERROR"

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2005-04-30T06:07:05-0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> That's the puzzling bit: my locale is already UTF-8. I only
> recently switched to UTF-8, and that's when the problems
> started. But when I was using an ASCII locale, pasting in
> such documents just failed altogether; the copy-and-paste
> operation would encounter some strange character in the
> non-ASCII file that I was pasting in (say, a curly quote)
> and refuse to let me paste. I'd never get an error; the
> paste would just fail. Now every single paste goes through,
> but I get these strange errors.

Just to be sure, you get the error when you try to -save- the result of
the (successful) paste, right?  What is your setting of "encoding" and
"fileencoding" and "fileencodings" when you try to save?

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