* Re: Working with 16 bit ascii text files?
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@ 2006-04-01 5:50 ` Lennart Borgman
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From: Lennart Borgman @ 2006-04-01 5:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
Thanks for reporting!
Raymond Zeitler wrote:
> I used the version dated 2006-03-21*. It handled the file nicely.
> I plan to upgrade when I figure out why my .emacs file crashes.
>
> *GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2006-03-21 on YAMALOK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lennart Borgman [mailto:lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se]
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:37 PM
> To: Raymond Zeitler
> Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Working with 16 bit ascii text files?
>
> Raymond Zeitler wrote:
>
>> I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) of 2004-03-10 on
>> NYAUMO on Windows 2000 SP4. I have trouble editing certain files that
>> seem to contain 16 bit characters. The string "string" shows up like
>> this: "^@s^@t^@r^@i^@n^@g". The ^@ is the null character. Also, line
>> endings have ^M^@.
>>
>> You can generate a file like this by saving a System Summary as a text
>> file in Computer Management.
>>
>> Emacs interprets these files as Unix. What I end up doing is invoking
>> query-replace on the file to replace the ^@ and the ^M with nothing.
>>
>> But aren't these files using some sort of 16 bit character set?
>> Shouldn't Emacs handle this better? I've never been able to find an
>> appropriate character set for C-x <RET> f. For example, manually
>> choosing any of the mule-utf-16 sets changes nothing.
>>
>> TIA for any help you can provide.
>>
>>
> You may want to try the next generation not yet released version of
> Emacs to see if things works better there. It is actually very stable.
> For binaries look here:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryWThirtyTwo
>
> If you do this please report back here how it works!
>
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