On 4/11/06, Hugh Sasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Yakov Lerner wrote:
>
> > > 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
> set fileencodings+=utf-8,utf-16,ucs-2le
> set fileencoding=ucs-2le
> set bomb
>
> and trying
> set fileencoding=utf-16
> set fileencoding=ucs-bom
>
> seems to make no difference:- set fenc? always tells me it is blank
>
> and
> set fileencodings+="utf-8,utf-16,ucs-2le"
> set fileencoding=ucs-2le
>
> doesn't help either, nor does removing the + and putting "ucs-bom" in
> there explicitly.
>
> So I'm still puzzled....
How about this:
au BufReadPost *.reg set fenc=...
What's value of your 'encoding' ?
:set encoding?
Yakov
