> 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 you need to set option 'fileencodings' properly in your vimrc (:he 'fileencodings'). The option 'bomb' (:he 'bomb') might be relevant, too. I am not specialist in encodings, though. Yakov
