[Bug 617761] Re: GVIM2 menu doesn't display Chinese character

[Eric Miao]

@An Yang, then apparently we need to change the title to something
different. gvim _can_ display GB18030, the problem is really it has
moved to use utf-8 internally, and guessing the encoding before read it
in according to the list of fileencodings.

:set fileencodings

And you will see the list of default fileencodings being "ucs-
bom,utf-8,default,latin1". Now I believe default is the charset of the
current locale (most likely being 'UTF-8'), so vim will fall back to
latin1 as the last resort, and trying to convert the gb18030 encoded
characters internally to utf-8, treating them as latin1 encoded, which
is obviously wrong. And once converted to utf-8, setting different
encoding by 'set encoding=' won't work as the content of the buffer is
already wrong.

One way to work around this,

:set fileencodings=gb18030,ucs-bom,utf-8,default,latin1

This will give vim a chance to convert from gb18030 firstly, and it
works for me.

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Title:
  GVIM2 menu doesn't display Chinese character

Status in “vim” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: vim

  I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 x64, GVIM2 menu is strange and no Chinese character is displayed.
  I've installed Chinese language support in advance.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: vim-gnome 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Aug 14 16:56:00 2010
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/vim.gnome
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=zh_CN:zh
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=zh_CN.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: vim

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