patch 8.2.2915: MS-Windows: when using "default" for encoding utf-8 is used
Problem: MS-Windows: when using "default" for encoding utf-8 is used.
Solution: Use the system encoding. (Ken Takata, closes #8300)
diff --git a/runtime/doc/options.txt b/runtime/doc/options.txt
index b2b79cb..d3adbd0 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/options.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/options.txt
@@ -3116,9 +3116,10 @@
because Vim cannot detect an error, thus the encoding is always
accepted.
The special value "default" can be used for the encoding from the
- environment. This is the default value for 'encoding'. It is useful
- when 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" and your environment uses a
- non-latin1 encoding, such as Russian.
+ environment. On MS-Windows this is the system encoding. Otherwise
+ this is the default value for 'encoding'. It is useful when
+ 'encoding' is set to "utf-8" and your environment uses a non-latin1
+ encoding, such as Russian.
When 'encoding' is "utf-8" and a file contains an illegal byte
sequence it won't be recognized as UTF-8. You can use the |8g8|
command to find the illegal byte sequence.