Dear everybody, following up on my Unix-originated habit, I'm using Vim as my favourite text editor for anything that resembles plain text in Windows. The Windows context menu item "edit with Vim" is very useful indeed :-)
And that's where I have a problem with .REG files. If the file is encoded as plain ASCII, that's no problem. The problem is that Regedit in XP exports Unicode (or what), maybe utf-16 (or some other multibyte charset). If I try "edit with Vim" on such files, I get a screenful of garbage. I'm using the basic Windows build of Vim (gvim.exe) that gets installed by the "allaround Windows installer" of VIM 7.2, available at www.vim.org. Is there an easy way out? A few dark curses in the command line? ":help multibyte" was not much help... I don't even know what encoding i should try. Or is the default Windows build missing some important compile-time features? Some parts of "multibyte" support? :version only mentions +multi_byte_ime/dyn , not +multi_byte. Any ideas are welcome :-) Frank Rysanek -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
