On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:52:58AM +0100, Hugh Sasse wrote:
>
> 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?
I borrowed my children's XP computer to test this. I am not sure
what you mean by "the hard way," maybe you already know this. What
works for me is
:set enc=utf-8
:e ++enc=ucs-2le regfile.reg
If I leave 'encoding' set to latin1 (the default), then I get a message
"[CONVERSION ERROR]" when I load the file.
HTH --Benji Fisher
