Re: Working with 16 bit ascii text files?

Re: Working with 16 bit ascii text files?

[Lennart Borgman]

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!
>