From: Mathias Dahl <brakjoller@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: reading binary, non-unix file
Date: 25 Oct 2004 08:40:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud5z7xpur.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: clboi8$rb4$1@quimby.gnus.org
"Mickey Ferguson" <MFerguson@peinc.com> writes:
> "J. David Boyd" <dave@adboyd.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.4677.1098473798.2017.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> >
> > try
> > M-x find-file-literally
>
> Nope. It loads the same (bad) way.
>
> (P.S. I found a free news server - quimby.gnus.org - that hosts
> gnu.emacs.help and allows posting, so I can now follow the thread that way.)
Can you paste some part of the file here? My guess is that
what you are looking at in emacs is a UTF-16 encoded file.
I am not sure at all, but I know that when I export stuff
from the registry to a file and just drag and drop that into
emacs it displays a lots of "^@" (ASCII 0, Ctrl-0) between
each "real" character. This is because it is UTF-16 encoded.
If I guess correctly you should be able to do this:
C-x <return> c u t f - 1 6 <return> C-x C-f m y _ f i l e . t x t <return>
where my_file.txt is the file you want to look at, and Emacs
will parse the file as it should.
/Mathias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-25 6:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-22 18:47 reading binary, non-unix file Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-22 19:27 ` J. David Boyd
[not found] ` <mailman.4677.1098473798.2017.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-10-22 19:57 ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-25 6:40 ` Mathias Dahl [this message]
2004-10-25 17:48 ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-26 1:08 ` Daniel Pittman
2004-10-26 9:05 ` Mathias Dahl
2004-10-26 17:00 ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-27 7:46 ` Mathias Dahl
2004-10-27 16:20 ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-27 16:39 ` Reiner Steib
2004-10-27 16:41 ` Drew Adams
2004-10-25 21:43 ` Mickey Ferguson
2004-10-25 23:55 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-10-23 3:44 ` Daniel Pittman
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