We should decide which character sets to support for each/all plugins. Other character sets could be specified outside of this set and they would be ignored if not understood by the editor. This is simply a list of character sets that all plugins should attempt to support at a minimum.

• UTF-8, BOM deprecated.
• UTF-16, LE/BE, BOM unspecified.
• Latin-1

If an implementation wishes to define a new character set, it is recommended that it consults outside authorities such as theWHATWG Encoding Standard and theIANA Character Set registry. Using a special prefix such asx- is neither required nor recommended, as unsupported values are simply ignored.

Vim character encodings can be set with thefilencoding command (see documentation).

setfileencoding=utf-8

setfileencoding=latin1

As notedhere, Emacs character encodings and end-of-line formats are both set using theset-buffer-file-coding-system command.

(set-buffer-file-coding-system'utf-8-unix)(set-buffer-file-coding-system'utf-8-dos)(set-buffer-file-coding-system'utf-8-mac)

(set-buffer-file-coding-system'iso-latin-1-unix)(set-buffer-file-coding-system'iso-latin-1-dos)(set-buffer-file-coding-system'iso-latin-1-mac)