Dos code page, search and spelling

[Hedelin]

1) I use a lot of dos code page files (850) and in previous versions of Texpad it was possible to search for words with special characters (i.e. é, à etc.). Now in 4.6 (and some older versions) it is impossible to type these characters in the search box , they are systematically replace with the character with the same hex code but in ansi page code. Unfortunately the search then fails. To have the correct characters (that is for example é) in the search box I have to paste it from the text window. Does someone know how to get Texpad to use the correct code page in the new versions ?

2) Since Texpad 4.6 the spelling suffers from the same problem. The words shown in the spelling box use Ansi code page. It is difficult to read them. Nevertheless the corrections in the text is made withnthe correct code page (dos). How can I force Textpad to show the words with dos code page in the spelling box.

One possibility is to convert the text to ansi, do the search or the spelling corrections and then to revert to dos encoding. But it is not practical solution.

Thanks for your answer.

Guy HEDELIN
Department for epidemiology and public health
University Louis Pasteur
F-67085 Strasbourg

[Jens]

Same problem.

This is a bug which is as old as textpad itself. I think it never worked correctly for DOS-files (not since Version 3.2.5). Either the typing in the search-field is ok (characters are displayed correctly) but then it will not find the search string in the text OR typing is bad, so you have to paste the correct version into the search-field but then finding is ok. I made a test with different versions of TextPad and this is what I got:


Version typing finding text if it is
in search- displayed correctly
field in search-field

3.2.5 ok wrong
4.0 ok wrong
4.1.05 ok wrong
4.2.1 ok wrong
4.2.2 ok wrong
4.3 wrong ok
4.3.1 wrong ok
4.3.2 wrong ok
4.4.0 wrong ok
4.4.1 wrong ok
4.4.2 wrong ok
4.5.0 wrong ok
4.6 wrong ok

So there are 2 different types of bugs: From 3.2.5 until 4.2.2 typing is ok, but searching is bad or - from 4.3 to 4.6 typing is bad but searching works fine. What we need is: Typing is ok AND searching works fine

You can try it. Download Version 3.2.5 from this site (still available). Then - for DOS-files - type some text in the search-field. They are displayed correctly. But you will not find the search string in the text.

I made the test with the german versions.

Jens