Hi,
A basic question. I have a multilingual file (with Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic, Arabic and Greek characters) encoded in utf-8 and also in utf-16.
How do I open these two files, edit and save them with Textpad?
Francois
Unicode support
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s_reynisson
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ben_josephs
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TextPad is not a Unicode editor. In a single document you can only view characters that are represented in a single font and script. You can set the script with
As Unicode becomes more widely used, TextPad will have to become more Unicode-friendly if it is not to lose many of its current users and if it is to gain many new users.
I believe this means that you can't, for example, view Chinese and Arabic characters in one document at one time.View | Document Properties | Font | Script
As Unicode becomes more widely used, TextPad will have to become more Unicode-friendly if it is not to lose many of its current users and if it is to gain many new users.
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lindamarcella
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Unicode/UTF-8 needed!
Today I copied some code from the web for a project on multilingual websites that had English and Hebrew interspersed. I saved it in UTF-8 from Word. IT looked fine in Word and fine in the browser.
When I reopen it in Word, word detects the <html> tag at the beginning and adds all kinds of garbage, so I don't want to save it again. I guess there is a DreamWeaver option to remove Windows garbage but I don't have DreamWeaver.
So then, I try opening the HTML file in TextPad by specifying UTF-8 in the Open dialog. But when I look at it, it changes the Hebrew letters to ????s It gives me a message that this is not in CP1252 format - yes, I know, what an odd message, as I have just specified UTF-8.
If I save the file, then view it again in a browser, now all the Hebrew characters have been replaced by ???s.
Please support Unicode/UTF-8 soon.
When I reopen it in Word, word detects the <html> tag at the beginning and adds all kinds of garbage, so I don't want to save it again. I guess there is a DreamWeaver option to remove Windows garbage but I don't have DreamWeaver.
So then, I try opening the HTML file in TextPad by specifying UTF-8 in the Open dialog. But when I look at it, it changes the Hebrew letters to ????s It gives me a message that this is not in CP1252 format - yes, I know, what an odd message, as I have just specified UTF-8.
If I save the file, then view it again in a browser, now all the Hebrew characters have been replaced by ???s.
Please support Unicode/UTF-8 soon.