patch 8.0.1632: in a terminal dump NUL and space are different commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/47015b80a0b0ff74ba7cb597d5959604b6e9a511 Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Fri Mar 23 22:10:34 2018 +0100 patch 8.0.1632: in a terminal dump NUL and space are different Problem: In a terminal dump NUL and space considered are different, although they are displayed the same. Solution: When encountering NUL handle it like space.

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