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Hi,

some simple text files when opened for view (f3)
are displayed incorrectly
as one long column one letter in each row,
I can't make out which text files are displayed as such but here's a simple one that
has this problem,

this is really bothering, notepad and other editors open this file without a glitch,
I've tried using the convert feature of the viewer but I can't see any utf/unicode options there, i believe these files
maybe utf or java utf
anyone has an idea?
--tzurs
love the salamander

tzurs wrote:some simple text files when opened for view (f3)
are displayed incorrectly
as one long column one letter in each row

I believe the file is UTF-16 encoded (though I didn't bother to look at it), which is unfortunately Microsoft's favorite. Salamander can't display these files correctly, however it's planned that this feature be implemented. See a random thread about Unicode support for more information, or search for Unicode in the forums.

Try to deselect NULL as Line Ending character in Internal Viewer Configuration - it won't be perfect, but at least you would be able to recognize basic file structure...

From Salamander main window: menu" Options" > "Configuration..." in the tree item "Viewers & Editors" subitem "Internal Viewer" and deselect NULL in the first section.
From Internal Viewer window: menu" Options" > "Configuration..." - the tree item "Viewers & Editors" subitem "Internal Viewer" will be automatically selected - deselect NULL in the first section.

To Altap: I think it should be deselected by default option because of wider and wider spread of files in UTF-16 encoding...

Hi!
I have the same problem, but it's not just related to the internal viewer. When i try to find text in these files, Altap doesn't find it. And so when pressing "F3" i see that the text is in one column. So changing the internal viewer doesn't solve the problem.

Doing as suggested produces a view of the file similar to:

E"some char"x"some char"a"some char"c"some char"t"some char" etc. Fiddling with the "Line end" options a little bit more results in a HEX-like view.

But as stated before i want to be able to search in this file and the only way to do this is to convert the file.

Altap 2.54, 3.0 and 3.05 was used.

Thanks in advance.