diff runtime/doc/options.txt @ 24754:a4cb7499fa11 v8.2.2915

patch 8.2.2915: MS-Windows: when using "default" for encoding utf-8 is used Commit: https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/ef8706fb84cfe8bd58b1b26b0742e42caf09655b Author: K.Takata <kentkt@csc.jp> Date: Mon May 31 18:40:49 2021 +0200 patch 8.2.2915: MS-Windows: when using "default" for encoding utf-8 is used Problem: MS-Windows: when using "default" for encoding utf-8 is used. Solution: Use the system encoding. (Ken Takata, closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/8300)
author Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
date Mon, 31 May 2021 18:45:03 +0200
parents e69e7133c9cf
children fd37be6dc258
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@@ -3116,9 +3116,10 @@ A jump table for the options with a shor
 	because Vim cannot detect an error, thus the encoding is always
 	accepted.
 	The special value "default" can be used for the encoding from the
-	environment.  This is the default value for 'encoding'.  It is useful
-	when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" and your environment uses a
-	non-latin1 encoding, such as Russian.
+	environment.  On MS-Windows this is the system encoding.  Otherwise
+	this is the default value for 'encoding'.  It is useful when
+	'encoding' is set to "utf-8" and your environment uses a non-latin1
+	encoding, such as Russian.
 	When 'encoding' is "utf-8" and a file contains an illegal byte
 	sequence it won't be recognized as UTF-8.  You can use the |8g8|
 	command to find the illegal byte sequence.