"Stephan Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Looks like it's the hex-encoded representation of some Unicode text > (each character is a 16-bit entity). For plain ASCII values (e.g. > English text), yes, you'll see every other byte as a zero. Gratitude! Thanks Stephan. Yes, you must be right, and it's what we'd expect WinXP to do, what with the overall move to Unicode uniformity. Still putting all the clues together ... -- "So, tell me, my little one-eyed one, on what poor, pitiful, defenseless planet has my MONSTROSITY been unleashed?" - Dr. Jumba, Disney's "Lilo & Stitch" OpenPGP Key at http://savannah.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=6050 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/