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Joeyyy
Joeyyy

Reputation: 37

"set listchars=tab:>-,eol:$,space:·" the "space:·" part doesn't work?

So strange is that it's all right before, but after I added one line in the vimrc with Windows Notepad, the error occur! And it makes me crazy!

Here is ":set listchars" part of my vimrc:

set listchars=tab:>-,eol:$,space:·

encountering error:

E474: invalid argument: listchars=tab:>-,eol:$,space:<a1><a4>

Screenshot vimrc

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3243

Answers (2)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172598

As you're using non-ASCII characters, you need to use :help :scriptencoding to specify the encoding of your ~/.vimrc.

You're also overriding the default 'encoding', which affects the representation of any text inside Vim, also any non-ASCII text already read in. Therefore, you first need to :set encoding, and only then (with the correct internal representation set) can you specify the script's encoding:

set encoding=utf-8
scriptencoding utf-8
set listchars=...

Alternatively, you could also work around the vimrc encoding issues by encoding the non-ASCII characters in a (double-quoted) string (:help expr-quote), and using :let &option instead of :set:

let &listchars = "tab:>-,eol:$,space:\u00B7"

Upvotes: 2

Ralf
Ralf

Reputation: 1813

It seems, that Vim is loading the file vimrc with some encoding that is not UTF-8. I don't know which encoding is used.

To force Vim to interpret vimrc as UTF-8, the following line is needed:

scriptencoding utf-8

All lines following this lines are then interpreted as UTF-8. All lines before that line are interpreted in whatever Vim determines.

If you set encoding in your vimrc, the line scriptencoding must be after that line.

So in your case, you need:

set encoding=utf-8
scriptencoding utf-8

See :help :scriptencoding for details.

Upvotes: 0

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