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I'm struggling to work out what the effect is supposed to be of setting the default encoding for the Tool Output window (Configure | Preferences | Document Classes | Tool Output, TP v. 5.3.1). I have this set to UTF-8. However, whenever I right click in the Tool Output window itself it always says "Code Set: ANSI." Under Preferences from Right-click | Properties on the Tool Output window it correctly shows "Default encoding: UTF-8." As the Tool Output window is not associated with any file there cannot be any issues of the type that might arise from opening a file with a different encoding than that set for the relevant document class in TP. My primary tool at present (GNU gcc) is outputting in UTF-8 and the Tool Output window is not handling this because it is using ANSI encoding despite the `default' being set to UTF-8.
Regards

S

This is even more bizarre that I had first thought. Having set the default codeset in the Tool Output window to use UTF-8, this doesn't - as I mentioned in my previous post - have any effect on what shows as the actual codeset as it appears under `Right click | Document tab' on the Tool Output `Document'. It remains as ANSI. However, if I close down TextPad and then reopen it and check again without any other intervening action, it shows the codeset for the Tool Output correctly as UTF-8 enabled. However (x2), if I then run my tool (gcc-4.4.3 compiler) the output is incorrectly rendered still and a second check on the codeset of the Tool Output window shows that it has reverted to ANSI - and this, even though the compiler is producing its output in UTF-8!

I don't think there's anything else that I can do to correct this as it seems that it is a bug in TextPad. For information I have found a workaround, but its not ideal.

My setup is TextPad 5.3.1 running on windows Vista with the locale set to `en_GB.UTF-8'. The tool I'm trying to run is the GNU gcc-4.4.3 compiler which, since version 4.0, will output in UTF-8 if it is running in a UTF-8 capable environment, which it is here. (See http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.0/changes.html for details.) This suggests that if I `downgrade' my locale to lose the UTF-8, then gcc will output in plain ANSI. And, sure enough, if I add `LANG=C.cp1252' directly to TextPad's environment variables (Configure | Preferences... | Environment Variables) then I can at least make sense of the output from gcc. However, as I say, it's not ideal since it presumably switches off all UTF-8 support in TextPad, though at present I'm not doing any work in unicode.

Is anyone else having similar problems? I have picked up that `Anton' was encountering the same kind of thing with tool output, which he reported in September of last year (http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=10207).

Regards

S