Editing

CWBillow · Post by **CWBillow** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 3:25 am

I seem to somehow have the darnedest time editing registry entries -- specifically Registry Editor Version 5.00 entries.

Somehow I always end up with them having the wrong format when I try to run them.

I have the class configured to save as UTF-8...what else am I missing or need to do to make merging the entries work?

Regards,
Chuck Billow

ak47wong · Post by **ak47wong** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:21 am

You've asked this question before. Here's your answer again: http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=8825

CWBillow · Post by **CWBillow** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 6:45 am

ak47wong wrote:You've asked this question before. Here's your answer again: http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=8825

Sorry 'bout that.

Thanks,
Chuck

CWBillow · Post by **CWBillow** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:07 am

ak47wong wrote:You've asked this question before. Here's your answer again: http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=8825

OK, I went back and re-read the entry, which says, in part:

For Windows registry files you need UTF-16LE with BOM. If you open an existing registry file in binary format, you will see that it begins with FF FE.
Select Configure | Preferences | Document Classes | <Class> | Write Unicode and UTF-8 BOM
or View | Document Properties | Preferences | Write Unicode and UTF-8 BOM
and use
File | Save As... | Encoding: Unicode

So should I, of the choices offered, use Unicode or "Unicode big endian"?

Chuck

CWBillow · Post by **CWBillow** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:21 am

CWBillow wrote:
ak47wong wrote:You've asked this question before. Here's your answer again: http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=8825
Sorry 'bout that.

Thanks,
Chuck

I went back and re-read, and then I went and exported a [small] registry entry.

It imported fine just as exported. Then I opened it up in TextPad, and it defaulted to Unicode. It would not merge into the registry.

Then I took the exported entry and resaved it as Unicode BE, but got the same error.

So what the heck am I doing wrong here? Wait...

Then I saved the original as UTF-8, and THAT merged.

So is THAT the encoding - UTF-8? I had though it was supposed to be Unicode?

Regards,
Chuck Billow

ak47wong · Post by **ak47wong** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 7:35 am

Ben Joseph's instructions seem quite unambiguous to me:

ben_josephs wrote:Select Configure | Preferences | Document Classes | <Class> | Write Unicode and UTF-8 BOM
or View | Document Properties | Preferences | Write Unicode and UTF-8 BOM
and use
File | Save As... | Encoding: Unicode

Did you follow both these steps?

CWBillow · Post by **CWBillow** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 8:13 am

ak47wong wrote:Ben Joseph's instructions seem quite unambiguous to me:

ben_josephs wrote:Select Configure | Preferences | Document Classes | <Class> | Write Unicode and UTF-8 BOM
or View | Document Properties | Preferences | Write Unicode and UTF-8 BOM
and use
File | Save As... | Encoding: Unicode
Did you follow both these steps?

Apologies...must have been having a senior moment. It worked fine this time.

hanks,
Chuck