patch 8.0.0420: text garbled when the system encoding differs from 'encoding'
Problem: When running :make the output may be in the system encoding,
different from 'encoding'.
Solution: Add the 'makeencoding' option. (Ken Takata)
diff --git a/runtime/doc/options.txt b/runtime/doc/options.txt
index 91c864d..4db9781 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/options.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/options.txt
@@ -4994,6 +4994,25 @@
This option cannot be set from a |modeline| or in the |sandbox|, for
security reasons.
+ *'makeencoding'* *'menc'*
+'makeencoding' 'menc' string (default "")
+ global or local to buffer |global-local|
+ {only available when compiled with the |+multi_byte|
+ feature}
+ {not in Vi}
+ Encoding used for reading the output of external commands. When empty,
+ encoding is not converted.
+ This is used for `:make`, `:lmake`, `:grep`, `:lgrep`, `:grepadd`,
+ `:lgrepadd`, `:cfile`, `:cgetfile`, `:caddfile`, `:lfile`, `:lgetfile`,
+ and `:laddfile`.
+
+ This would be mostly useful when you use MS-Windows and set 'encoding'
+ to "utf-8". If |+iconv| is enabled and GNU libiconv is used, setting
+ 'makeencoding' to "char" has the same effect as setting to the system
+ locale encoding. Example: >
+ :set encoding=utf-8
+ :set makeencoding=char " system locale is used
+<
*'makeprg'* *'mp'*
'makeprg' 'mp' string (default "make", VMS: "MMS")
global or local to buffer |global-local|