ANSI and UTF-8

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martib
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ANSI and UTF-8

Post by martib »

hi,

i want my files to be open in UTF-8 so i changed this in the Preferences Tab.
and additionally when i open a file i tell it to encode in UTF-8

but every time i get the message that signs are missing in the ANSI Latin1 page and will be replaced with the system standard.

what is the problem and how to get all the UTF-8 encodings?
ben_josephs
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Post by ben_josephs »

You can't see all Unicode characters in any one document in TextPad.

TextPad does not properly support Unicode. Each document must be rendered in its entirety in one of the 8-bit "scripts" that can that can be selected from
Configure | Preferences | Document Classes | <Class> | Font | Script
or
View | Document Properties | Font | Script.

These scripts are (with the code pages I think they correspond to):

Code: Select all

Western            1252
Greek              1253
Turkish            1254
Central European   1250
Cyrillic           1251
If all the characters in your documents are in any single one of these scripts then choose that script. If your documents are less graecoromanocentric or if they contain characters from more than one script you cannot use TextPad to edit them.

See, for example, http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6842.
martib
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Post by martib »

can i use wildedit however to edit just html format without the unicode characters are changed?
ben_josephs
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Post by ben_josephs »

I didn't know. So I looked in the help. I found the answer. It can.
martib
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Post by martib »

right, i was playing with wildedit and found it worked.

just wanted to double chekc with the forum
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