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.