patch 9.1.0024: z/OS (MVS) support can be improved Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/497e5282b6d21b99c01c6ecc6bf41b9b1781df6a Author: Igor Todorovski <itodorov@ca.ibm.com> Date: Fri Jan 12 17:59:18 2024 +0100 patch 9.1.0024: z/OS (MVS) support can be improved Problem: z/OS (MVS) support can be improved Solution: set UTF-8 as the default encoding for z/OS closes: #13821 Signed-off-by: Igor Todorovski <itodorov@ca.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>

--- a/src/option.h
+++ b/src/option.h
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ typedef enum {
 #define ENC_UCSBOM	"ucs-bom"	// check for BOM at start of file
 
 // default value for 'encoding'
-#ifdef MSWIN
+#if defined(MSWIN) || defined(__MVS__)
 # define ENC_DFLT	"utf-8"
 #else
 # define ENC_DFLT	"latin1"