Re: [h-e-w] Working with 16 bit ascii text files?

[Lennart Borgman]

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: "address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@g".  The ^@ is the null 
> character.  Also, line
> endings have address@hidden
>
> 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!