I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2004-03-10 on NYAUMO on Windows 2000 SP4. I have trouble editing certain files that seem to contain 16 bit characters. The string "string" shows up like this: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@g". The ^@ is the null character. Also, line endings have [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can generate a file like this by saving a System Summary as a text file in Computer Management. Emacs interprets these files as Unix. What I end up doing is invoking query-replace on the file to replace the ^@ and the ^M with nothing. But aren't these files using some sort of 16 bit character set? Shouldn't Emacs handle this better? I've never been able to find an appropriate character set for C-x <RET> f. For example, manually choosing any of the mule-utf-16 sets changes nothing. TIA for any help you can provide.
