On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Benji Fisher wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:47:52PM +0100, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> >
> > Yes. Is there something I can set that will make the encoding ucs-2le when
> > every alternate char is a null (apart from the "bom[b]")? Maybe there's a
> > reason to not do that?
>
> Unfortunately, there is no reliable way to detect the file's
> encoding. (I do not think that "every alternate char is a null" is
Just a heuristic. I've not seen the full 16 bits used yet, except for
the BOM. Obviously if I use something other than English that's more likely.
> really what is going on.) That is the idea of the BOM, but apparently
> regedit does not set one.
>
> One thing that might help is to :set enc=utf-8 in your vimrc file;
> then
>
> :e ++enc=ucs-2le
agreed.
> :set bomb " I think this will be set already, but be safe
It only applies to Unicode fileencoding anyway, so that's OK in the vimrc.
> :w
>
> I think the next time you open the file in gvim, it will recognize the
> BOM and set 'fenc' automatically.
>
> Another thing that might help is to add the lines
>
> :set enc=utf-8
> :au BufReadPre *.reg set fencs=ucs-2le
> :au BufReadPost *.reg set fencs&
That would work, but I've seen this with other windows files also, so
I was after something more widely applicable than '*.reg'. I'll assume
that nothing more automagical is possible for now.
>
> I have not tested this.
>
> HTH --Benji Fisher
Thank you.
Hugh
>
