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.reg files in internal viewer

Posted: 10 May 2007, 14:48
by Hawkwind
Viewing a "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00" .reg-file in the internal viewer looks very strange (see attachment). Everything is okay with "REGEDIT4" .reg-file which is the format altap salamander exports its own registry.

A bug?

Re: .reg files in internal viewer

Posted: 10 May 2007, 15:20
by Datalog
Hawkwind wrote:A bug?
No.

Unicode and Configuration - Internal Viewer - Line Ends - NULL checked.

.reg v. 5.0 is unicode formated (two bytes per char) and second byte is usually zero, which by-default breaks line in internal viewer.

Posted: 10 May 2007, 15:46
by Jan Rysavy
We plan to support Unicode in Salamander 3.0, please look at roadmap.

Posted: 13 May 2007, 19:29
by therube
Have to disagree on this one.

Making the entire application Unicode compatible is one thing.

But the viewer? Why not? Why the wait?

MS has used Unicode since what, NT?

Do we need to use Universal Viewer (ATViewer), Win32Pad, or similar, just so we can "properly" view a Unicode file?


Find Files (Alt+F7) Content Search Option - Unicode

Posted: 13 May 2007, 21:34
by Jan Patera
therube wrote:Making the entire application Unicode compatible is one thing.
But the viewer? Why not? Why the wait?
My words...

Posted: 04 Nov 2007, 14:13
by dprice
I have also run into the unicode problem with the internal viewer. I'm running AS 2.5 and I still see the vertical view as shown in the above screenshot. I checked my configuration and I have NULL (and all the others) checked. What else do I need to do?

Thanks!
Derek

Posted: 04 Nov 2007, 14:50
by Datalog
dprice wrote: ... I checked my configuration and I have NULL checked. ...
Uncheck it.
There will be 'ugly' characters (after each normal), but no vertical view

Posted: 04 Nov 2007, 15:45
by dprice
Ok - I get it. I'll just stick with Notepad2 for viewing these types of files.

Thanks,
Derek

Re: .reg files in internal viewer

Posted: 24 May 2011, 00:20
by Andre.Ziegler
any news about this issue? When do we get a fix?

Re: .reg files in internal viewer

Posted: 25 May 2011, 22:40
by mdruiter
JFYI, the File Comparator plugin does support "Unicode" (UTF-16 encoded) files. So if you really have to, compare the file you want to view (as text) with some other file. :idea:

Re: .reg files in internal viewer

Posted: 09 Apr 2012, 12:33
by Andre.Ziegler
The issue still occurs in 3.0 EAP. Are there any plans to fix this?

Re: .reg files in internal viewer

Posted: 09 Apr 2012, 12:49
by Jan Rysavy
Unfortunately the Unicode support was postponed after 3.0 release, updated roadmap is available at http://www.altap.cz/salamander/roadmap/