patch 8.1.1349: if writing runs into conversion error backup file is deleted commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/cf0bfd9ade5173bcc12563bfc90c21a4db10535d Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sat May 18 18:52:04 2019 +0200 patch 8.1.1349: if writing runs into conversion error backup file is deleted Problem: If writing runs into a conversion error the backup file is deleted. (Arseny Nasokin) Solution: Don't delete the backup file is the file was overwritten and a conversion error occurred. (Christian Brabandt, closes #4387)

let encoding = &enc
if encoding == 'latin1'
    if has("unix")
	let encoding = 'iso-8859-8'
    else
	let encoding = 'cp1255'
    endif
endif

if encoding == 'utf-8'
	source <sfile>:p:h/hebrew_utf-8.vim
elseif encoding == 'cp1255'
	source <sfile>:p:h/hebrew_cp1255.vim
else
	source <sfile>:p:h/hebrew_iso-8859-8.vim
endif