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AutoFenc : Tries to automatically detect and set file encoding

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created by
Petr Zemek
 
script type
utility
 
description
A Vim plugin that tries to automatically detect and set file encoding when opening a file. See https://github.com/s3rvac/AutoFenc for more details and configuration options.
 
install details
Put the AutoFenc.vim file into your $HOME/.vim/plugin directory (Linux-like systems) or %UserProfile%\vimfiles\plugin folder (Windows systems).
 

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package script version date Vim version user release notes
AutoFenc.vim 1.5.1 2014-05-03 7.0 Petr Zemek - Cleanup.
- Put the sources to GitHub (https://github.com/s3rvac/AutoFenc).
AutoFenc.vim 1.5 2012-03-17 7.0 Petr Zemek Thanks to Ingo Karkat for the updates in this version.
- Supported HTML/XML/CSS file types have been made configurable and added more defaults.
- Do not emit the "unrecognized charset" message when the encoding is known.
AutoFenc.vim 1.4 2012-03-11 7.0 Petr Zemek Thanks to Ingo Karkat for the updates in this version.
- Improved the detection regexp for comments:
    - added "fileencoding" and "charset";
    - demands that there is a whitespace in front of the keyword, so that "daycoding" doesn't match;
    - g:autofenc_autodetect_commentexpr allows to configure the pattern for comment detection.
- Introduced g:autofenc_enc_blacklist to disable some encodings. For example, the enca tool has a tendency to detect plain text files as UTF-7. With the blacklist, AutoFenc can be instructed to ignore those encodings.
- The check for ASCII is set to be case-insensitive because enca reports this in uppercase, so the condition fails unless ignorecase is set.
- Keeps changed CWD with 'autochdir' setting by temporarily disabling it. For example, suppose that a user has ":lcd .." in after/ftplugin/gitcommit.vim and that he is in the Git root directory, not the .git subdir when composing a commit message. The reload of the buffer by AutoFenc (via :edit) again triggered the automatic change of the working dir, and therefore the customization was lost. The 'autochdir' setting needs to be temporarily disabled to avoid that.
- Added a support for plain Vim 7.0 in the shellescape() emulation from version 1.3.4. Otherwise, there were errors in Vim 7.0.
AutoFenc.vim 1.3.4 2012-02-27 7.0 Petr Zemek - Don't override when the user explicitly sets file encoding with ++enc (thanks to Benjamin Fritz).
- Fixed TOhtml version detection (again) and made sure line continuations can actually be used (thanks to Benjamin Fritz and Ingo Karkat).
- Disabled the option shellslash on Windows before calling shellescape() (it may cause problems on Windows, thanks for the tip goes to Benjamin Fritz).
AutoFenc.vim 1.3.3 2011-11-29 7.0 Petr Zemek Thanks to Ingo Karkat for the updates in this version.
- Fixed a problem in the TOhtml detection when, for example, g:loaded_2html_plugin = 'vim7.3_v6'.
- The return code of the call of an external program via system(ext_prog_cmd) is now checked. This prevents Vim interpreting an error message as an encoding.
- shellescape() is now used instead of quoting file_path manually.
AutoFenc.vim 1.3.2 2011-11-24 7.0 Petr Zemek Thanks to Benjamin Fritz for the updates in this version.
- Fixed the detection of the version of the TOhtml plugin.
AutoFenc.vim 1.3.1 2011-07-23 7.0 Petr Zemek Thanks to Benjamin Fritz for the updates in this version.
- Fixed the plugin behavior when reloading a file with different settings.
AutoFenc.vim 1.3 2011-04-22 7.0 Petr Zemek Thanks to Benjamin Fritz for the updates in this version.
  - Added support for HTML version 5 encoding detection.
  - The script now dies gracefully in old Vims.
  - 'g:autofenc_autodetect_comment_num_of_lines' renamed to 'g:autofenc_autodetect_num_of_lines'
AutoFenc.vim 1.2.1 2011-04-13 7.0 Petr Zemek Fixed a typo in a variable name (this resulted in an error in some occasions). Thanks to Charles Lee for pointing this bug out.
AutoFenc.vim 1.2 2011-03-31 7.0 Petr Zemek Thanks to Benjamin Fritz for the updates in this version.
  - TOhtml's IANA name/Vim encoding conversion functions are now used.
  - Changed BOM detection so it does not duplicate a check Vim already did by default (i.e. default to off if ucs-bom is in the 'fileencodings').
  - Put autocmds in the AutoFenc augroup for easier handling.
  - Made autocmd nested so we don't need to worry about restoring everything that other autocmds may set (e.g. syntax).
  - Jumplist or cursor position during detection are not affected.
  - The g:autofenc_autodetect_comment_num_of_lines option is now used also in HTML/XML/CSS detection routines (previously only used for encoding specified in comments).
  - Improved HTML charset line regex.
  - Added an option (g:autofenc_emit_messages) to emit messages about the detected/used encoding upon opening a file.
AutoFenc.vim 1.1.1 2009-10-03 7.0 Petr Zemek Fixed the comment encoding detection function (see changelog).
AutoFenc.vim 1.1 2009-08-16 7.0 Petr Zemek Added three configuration possibilites to disable autodetection for specific files (based on file size, file type and file path). See script description for more info.
AutoFenc.vim 1.0.2 2009-08-11 7.0 Petr Zemek Fixed the XML encoding detection function and minor code and documentation fixes.
AutoFenc.vim 1.0.1 2009-08-02 7.0 Petr Zemek Three bugfixes (see changelog).
AutoFenc.vim 1.0 2009-07-26 7.2 Petr Zemek Initial upload
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