Bug#432004: vim: detection of file encoding sometimes fails

[Adeodato Simó]

Package: vim
Version: 1:7.1-000+1
Severity: normal

The autodetection of encoding governed by the 'fileencodings' option
sometimes fail, in a funny way.

I had a file in iso-8859-1 encoding with the word "adiós". This was
recognized as an utf-8 file. Changing the word to "adiós." makes it get
recognized as iso-8859-1.

Some more tests:

  adiós         => wrong
  adiós.        => correct
  ó             => wrong
  ó.            => wrong
  .ó.           => wrong
  á             => wrong
  á.            => correct

This is with the default value of 'fileencodings' (vi -U NONE -u NONE).

Also, this fails with vim 6.4 and 7.0 as well.

Thanks,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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