Question

I’m trying to save a macro to the file I’m editing.

All goes well until I close and reopen the file. When I reopen the file, the pasted macro

<80><fc>^B Setup^M<80>

has become

■üSetup^M■

I assume this is encoding related but it’s beyond me on how to resolve it.

Following are some settings that might be relevant:

• fileformat=dos
• fileformats=dos,unix
• fileencoding=latin1
• fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1
• encoding=utf-8

Does anyone have an idea what I need to change to make it work?

Edit

I had no idea where the <80><fc>^B sequence was coming from.

It appears to be inserted into the macro when I type //***** Setup with the SHIFT key pressed up until the S from setup. The macro gets pasted as //*****<80><fc>^B Setup

Note 1: I use an Azerty keyboard. For the keys / and *, I need to press the shift key.

Note 2: A solution is to not hold the SHIFT key when typing the space character between //***** and Setup. Holding the shift key mearly has become an automatism when typing that pretty much used sequence.

Answer 1

you are using the gui with -W option? Then read that question. It is really related to it.