REG_EXPAND_SZ not parsed correctly

[Cihan Altinay]

Hi,
I have a .reg file exported from Windows that contains the following entry:

"HelpLink"=hex(2):68,00,74,00,74,00,70,00,3a,00,2f,00,2f,00,77,00,77,00,77,00,\
  2e,00,6d,00,69,00,63,00,72,00,6f,00,73,00,6f,00,66,00,74,00,2e,00,63,00,6f,\
  00,6d,00,2f,00,73,00,75,00,70,00,70,00,6f,00,72,00,74,00,00,00

When I run "regedit regfile.reg" this value is written into system.reg as
follows:
"HelpLink"=str(2):"h\0t\0t\0p\0:\0/\0/\0w\0w\0w\0.\0m\0i\0c\0r\0o\0s\0o\0f\0t\0.
\0c\0o\0m\0/\0s\0u\0p\0p\0o\0r\0t\0\0"

Looking at this key with wine's regedit I just see an "h", ie. the first
character, because the next one is treated as end of string. I don't know
if this is a bug in regedit or in the way the value gets read/written by
advapi. Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Cihan

[Francois Gouget]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Cihan Altinay wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a .reg file exported from Windows that contains the following entry:
>
> "HelpLink"=hex(2):68,00,74,00,74,00,70,00,3a,00,2f,00,2f,00,77,00,77,00,77,00,\
>  2e,00,6d,00,69,00,63,00,72,00,6f,00,73,00,6f,00,66,00,74,00,2e,00,63,00,6f,\
>  00,6d,00,2f,00,73,00,75,00,70,00,70,00,6f,00,72,00,74,00,00,00

I believe one of the problems with Wine's regedit is that it does not 
deal correctly with Unicode .reg files. The symptoms you describe seem 
to confirm this. So it's probably regedit that needs fixing.