Re: [tlug] localedef builds sjis locale but the result doesn't work

[Michael Doughty <tlug@example.com>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:10:26PM +0900, Michael Doughty wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 07:20:49PM +0900, Norman Diamond wrote:
> > But the following commands still displayed mojibake:
> > 
> >   LANG=ja_JP.SJIS vim sjisfile
> >   LANG=ja_JP.sjis vim sjisfile
> >   LC_ALL=ja_JP.SJIS vim sjisfile
> >   LC_ALL=ja_JP.sjis vim sjisfile
> > 
> 
> First, there is no guarantee that your version of vim was built in such
> a way as to properly support multi-byte characters, or that you have the
> proper fonts installed.
> 

I was planning to mention checking to see if +multi_byte is built into
your version of vim.  'vim --version'

For some pretty useful info ':help mbyte' inside of vim is pretty helpful.

Michael