Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • SEARCH
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 8522129
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: June 11, 20262026-06-11T07:01:31+00:00 2026-06-11T07:01:31+00:00

I have a file which shows different things in Notepad and Vim. The file

  • 0

I have a file which shows different things in Notepad and Vim.

The file displays normally under Windows Notepad:

picture of file in Windows Notepad

Strange character are added to each character when using Vim.

picture of file in Vim

Anyone know how to dismiss those strange character in Vim under Windows environment?

  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. Editorial Team
    Editorial Team
    2026-06-11T07:01:33+00:00Added an answer on June 11, 2026 at 7:01 am

    As you can see: TSS is displayed as T^@S^@S^@(binary: 54 00 53 00 53 00).
    Because vim shows \0x00 as ^@. It sounds like UTF16LE.


    You can convert UTF16LE to UTF8:

    :e ++enc=UTF16LE
    :set fenc=UTF8
    :w
    
    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Related Questions

I have a xxx.html.twig file which shows a page, but when I want to
I have a bit of xml file named Sample.xml which is shown below <?xml
Suppose I have file which goes like this : a void measure() { a
I have a file which contains lines of data in the following format: a11
I have a file which I'm trying to extract information from, the file has
I have a file which has multiple columns, whitespace separated. e.g: data1 data2 data3
I have .zip file which contain csv data. I am reading .zip file using
I have this file which I need to read the first bytes to check
i have a file which contains a lot of update query and some other
I have a file which is combination of PHP and HTML. How can i

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.