How to get Vim to correctly display file instead of showing ^@ characters

Question

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

The file displays normally under Windows Notepad:

Strange character are added to each character when using Vim.

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

Answer 1

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.

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You can convert UTF16LE to UTF8:

:e ++enc=UTF16LE
:set fenc=UTF8
:w