Re: regedit: Allow importing UCS-2 and UTF-8 files created by Windows'regedit v5

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Paul Chitescu"  wrote:
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>        /* Attempt to guess the encoding from the first several bytes */
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>        if (encoding < 0) {
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>            if (line [0] == '\377' && line [1] == '\376') {
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>                encoding = 2; /* FF FE    => UCS-2 little endian */
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>                offset = 2;
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>            }
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>            else if (line [0] == '\357' && line [1] == '\277' && line [2] == '\275') {
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>                encoding = 1; /* EF BF BD => UTF-8 */
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>                offset = 3;
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>                if (line [3] == '\357' && line [4] == '\277' && line [5] == '\275')
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>                    offset += 3;
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>            }
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>            else
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>                encoding = 0; /* default  => ASCII (hope so...) */

That's quite confising to use hex numbers in the comments and not use
them in actual comparisons.