在非多字节Vim中正确显示utf-8 HTML字符

Question

I've been attempting to open .epub files in vim for reading (yes it's silly, let's ignore that for now) and I'm having trouble with how the internal html of epubs displays characters such as ' and " among other things.

Vim displays ' as â~@~Y while opening the file with less gives me <E2><80><99> . I'm not sure how vim deals with this (it seems to treat ~@ and ~Y as single characters) and as such I'm not sure how to go about replacing the special HTML characters with their utf-8 equivalent.

Is there a encoding setting that will display this properly? Or a way to manually input these characters such that I could create a search and replace macro?

Thanks

Answer 1

It looks like Vim doesn't properly detect the UTF-8 encoding; you can check with

:setlocal fileencoding?

and force UTF-8 with

:edit ++enc=utf-8 file.epub

(or tweak your 'fileencodings' option to have it automatically detected).