The document default encoding is ANSI and the create new document is PC. I pasted text from Firefox into TextPad with some strange results. After getting some strange characters with the tapping of Backspace or Tab, I checked the document properties which indicated indicated ANSI default coding and the document to be created as UNIX.
In another test I set Firefox Content option and the View text encoding to Western Windows, and with a newly pasted text I got the same strange characters, and the Document properties default encoding changed to UTF-8 and the create remained UNIX.
I posted an image to PicFront: http://www.picfront.org/d/9jux
Also, I tried this with UTF-8 and PC and got the same results.
Document encoding options are not clear
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Document encoding options are not clear
TextPad 8.16.0 64bit in English and TextPad 9.1.0 64bit in French, on two separate Windows installations
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ben_josephs
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It is impossible to tell from your description exactly what characters you are entering into your TextPad window.
But the white-on-black blobs are backspace characters (0x08, ctrl-H) and the right arrows are substitute characters (0x1A, ctrl-Z). Neither of these is normally found in a plain text file. So what you are pasting into your editor is not plain text.
But the white-on-black blobs are backspace characters (0x08, ctrl-H) and the right arrows are substitute characters (0x1A, ctrl-Z). Neither of these is normally found in a plain text file. So what you are pasting into your editor is not plain text.