Vim encoding issue with danish characters æøå

Question

When trying to input danish characters æøå into vim, I suddenly get "æ ø å " and then the questionmark blocks on reopening. The same goes for files saved in other editors and reopened in vim. I have set my encoding to utf-8 in my vimrc, and experience no issues in other editors. Are there other encoding options I should be aware of than

:set encoding

?

Answer 1

You may have to enable detection for UTF-8 by setting fileencodings:

set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,cp1257,latin1

(note: fileencoding is current, fileencodings is list of encodings to try.)