hebrew or arabic in textpad? does textpad support unicode?

[bintin]

לחילחילחי


^^ Above are some hebrew letters. When I paste them into notepad, no problem. When I paste them into textpad, I get ????

if I try to type them into notepad, fine. If I try to type them into textpad, I get latin like characters.

When I try to open a file with it, I get the message that the characters aren't in ANSI code page 1252.. even though I chose unicode when opening it .

I seems that notepad is more powerful than textpad at this!!

I may be able to do a bit in HEX, but how do I switch the display to hex, so the ??? become hex digits.

[helios]

Try changing the font to Courier New with a Hebrew script.

You will need to implement the following procedure in TextPad:

From the Configure menu choose:

1. Preferences
2. "+" sign next to Document classes
3. "+" sign next to the specific Document class
4. Font
5. Select the font and script
6. Click Apply / OK.

[bintin]

Done. I still find I get question marks when I paste hebrew into textpad, and I get latin characters when I type into textpad while hebrew is chosen in the language bar.

I changed the Font to Courier New - Hebrew script. for "default" and "text". Under configure..preferences..document classes.

[ben_josephs]

Did you change the font and script for the current document? You can select the font and script either for the class at
Configure | Preferences | Document Classes | <Class> | Font
or for just the current document at
View | Document Properties | Font.

TextPad does not properly support Unicode: it displays each document using only a single Windows code page, which is an 8-bit character set that supports only a limited number of characters.

Hebrew and Arabic require different code pages: Hebrew requires CP 1255, Arabic requires CP 1256. So you won't be able to display Hebrew and Arabic simultaneously.

Also, TextPad doesn't support right-to-left flow. So you may have to enter Hebrew and Arabic text backwards.

[bintin]

hmm, a limitation with using the hebrew code page, is it doesn't have the cantillation marks(which also punctuate the text of the bible and indicate accent). whereas unicode does have them.


Anyhow, that did it.. Changing the font for the current document(view..document properties..font..), worked.

Thanks.