Non-ANSI characters warning

nicksimon · Post by **nicksimon** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:36 pm

Hello,

Every time I open a UTF-8 document with non-ANSI characters I get this warning:

WARNING: "file.txt" contains characters that do not exist in code page 1252 (ANSI - Latin I). They will be converted to the system default character, if you click OK

This makes reading and editing the file impossible. Can this be resolved?

Thanks!

PS: My version is 4.3.1

bveldkamp · Post by **bveldkamp** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:46 am

That's not possible, because TP does not support unicode.

AotD · Post by **AotD** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:38 am

On windows XP this problem not appears, TP open all files, but on Vista TP show me the same warning:"WARNING: "file.txt" contains characters that do not exist in code page 1252 (ANSI - Latin I). They will be converted to the system default character, if you click OK"

My UTF file contains only english and curillic (windows-1251) characters.

(sorry for my english

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ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:40 am

As Berend says, TextPad does not properly support Unicode: it displays each document using only one (8-bit) code page at a time. Your document contains characters that exist in Windows CP1252, and TextPad is trying to display it using Windows CP1251.

Select
Configure | Preferences | Document Classes | <Class> | Font | Script: Cyrillic
or
View | Document Properties | Font | Script: Cyrillic.

Here is the correspondence between scripts and code pages:

Code: Select all

Western            1252
Greek              1253
Turkish            1254
Central European   1250
Cyrillic           1251

AotD · Post by **AotD** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:49 pm

I open file from File -> Open, it opens normally.
But from shell (Open with -> TextPad) - warning appears.

TextPad (5.2)