diff runtime/doc/options.txt @ 11063:e71d3bdf3bc3 v8.0.0420

patch 8.0.0420: text garbled when the system encoding differs from 'encoding' commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/2c7292dc5bbf155fe2192d417363b8c085759cad Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Mar 5 17:43:31 2017 +0100 patch 8.0.0420: text garbled when the system encoding differs from 'encoding' Problem: When running :make the output may be in the system encoding, different from 'encoding'. Solution: Add the 'makeencoding' option. (Ken Takata)
author Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
date Sun, 05 Mar 2017 17:45:05 +0100
parents 1218c5353e2b
children d0a20101ecb2
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--- a/runtime/doc/options.txt
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@@ -4994,6 +4994,25 @@ A jump table for the options with a shor
 	This option cannot be set from a |modeline| or in the |sandbox|, for
 	security reasons.
 
+					*'makeencoding'* *'menc'*
+'makeencoding' 'menc'	string	(default "")
+			global or local to buffer |global-local|
+			{only available when compiled with the |+multi_byte|
+			feature}
+			{not in Vi}
+	Encoding used for reading the output of external commands.  When empty,
+	encoding is not converted.
+	This is used for `:make`, `:lmake`, `:grep`, `:lgrep`, `:grepadd`,
+	`:lgrepadd`, `:cfile`, `:cgetfile`, `:caddfile`, `:lfile`, `:lgetfile`,
+	and `:laddfile`.
+
+	This would be mostly useful when you use MS-Windows and set 'encoding'
+	to "utf-8".  If |+iconv| is enabled and GNU libiconv is used, setting
+	'makeencoding' to "char" has the same effect as setting to the system
+	locale encoding.  Example: >
+		:set encoding=utf-8
+		:set makeencoding=char	" system locale is used
+<
 						*'makeprg'* *'mp'*
 'makeprg' 'mp'		string	(default "make", VMS: "MMS")
 			global or local to buffer |global-local|