Re: vi: invalid conversion, truncated file

[Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 18 May 2010 12:11:17 +0200
Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:39:04PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > When opening a file in vi in a UTF-8 environment, doing changes and
> > saving-and-quitting, I sometimes open files that are not valid UTF-8
> > files (e.g. iso-8859-1).
> > 
> > vi then claims "invalid conversion" and truncates the file at the
> > first invalid character.
> 
> Does this happen at reading or writing?
> 
>       -is

I saw that too, it happens on :w...

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