Why vim doesn't insert cyrillic symbols properly in Ex mode?

[Stas Malavin]

To make changes in several files I use the following script:

echo search('publications.html"') | normal o<li><a href="./book_series.html">Книжные серии</a></li>
echo search('collections.html"') | d
echo search('photo.html"') | d
wq

Then I do
for file in *.html do; vim -e $file < script; done

As a result a string "^Z=86=K5 A5@88" is inserted instead of "Книжные серии". All html files as well as the script itself are utf-8 encoded, and no other problems with Cyrillic revealed. What's going on?

Thanks in advance for any comment!

[Yukihiro Nakadaira]

CC to vim_dev

In Ex mode, multi-byte character is not handled.

Please check the attached patch.

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[Bram Moolenaar]

Yukihiro Nakadaira wrote:

> CC to vim_dev
>
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Stas Malavin <stas.m...@gmail.com> wrote> :
>
> > To make changes in several files I use the following script:
> >
> > echo search('publications.html"') | normal o<li><a
> > href="./book_series.html">Книжные > серии</a></li>
> > echo search('collections.html"') | d
> > echo search('photo.html"') | d
> > wq
> >
> > Then I do
> > for file in *.html do; vim -e $file < script; done
> >
> > As a result a string "^Z=86=K5 A5@88" is inserted instead of "К> нижные

> > серии". All html files as well as the script its> elf are utf-8 encoded, and

> > no other problems with Cyrillic revealed. What's going on?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any comment!
>
> In Ex mode, multi-byte character is not handled.
> Please check the attached patch.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

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[Stas Malavin]

Thanks to Ben at stackoverflow.com (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24019364/why-vim-doesnt-insert-cyrillic-symbols-properly-in-ex-mode), the solution is to use
vim -S script $file
instead of
vim -e $file < script