Changing none-ASCII characters to question marks

dhesmer · Post by **dhesmer** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 5:49 pm

I'm running TP 7.6.2 - 32 bit.
Loading a text file with e.g. eastern europe chars I always get a warning message, that some chars are not included in code page 1252 ANSI. They are converted all to "?".
The text file is UTF-8 with BOM (according NotePad++). TP also says UTF-8 in its bottom line. My TP settings are for all document classes UTF-8.
I do not load the file by the file load dialog, but only by calling TP from another program and adding the filename during the load TP process.

During searching the forum, all recommendations are related to the load file dialog, which I can't use.
NotePad++ works without any problem, but as a TP user for about 20 years I would like to stay with TP.
Is there any solution to get the chars correctly in TP?

ben_josephs · Post by **ben_josephs** » Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:42 pm

TextPad didn't properly support Unicode until version 8. Try upgrading.

dhesmer · Post by **dhesmer** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 12:38 pm

ben_josephs wrote:TextPad didn't properly support Unicode until version 8. Try upgrading.

Problem solved, TP8 works well.