On Mi, 02 Dez 2009, Frantisek Rysanek wrote:
> 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 :-)
I believe Windows uses a UTF-16 encoding, so try reloading the file with
:e! ++enc=utf-16le
(Or whatever the windows encoding is)
regards,
Christian
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