Nobody seems to have replied to this, so please excuse me resubmitting it. I've still not found a solution for this, qnd would appreciate some help. Given the Vim Jobs List thread, I'm not the only person trying to use vim effectively on Windows :-)
Thank you, Hugh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 12:08:23 +0100 (WEST) From: Hugh Sasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Vim Help list <vim@vim.org> Subject: editing WinXP text files - multibyte? If, on WinXP, I do regedit /e regfile.reg I get a file with the contents of the registry. However, in my Gvim (6.4) I see nulls for every other character (^@), which agrees with remarks about ucs-2le in the docs. This is particularly unpleasant to read and edit. Notepad will display it to read, but for editing I'd rather use gvim. Both :he utf-16 | he ucs2-le turn up nothing, and the utf-8 things don't seem relevant. :he encoding tells me I can't use that to edit a file that has loaded incorrectly, so I'll have to re-open the file. But that means right-clicking the file to access vim won't work. I think I'm doing this the hard way. Could someone point me at the right part of the docs, please? Thank you, Hugh