seeing greek characters in textpad

[guess]

Windows XP

I saved some greek characters in notepad in UTF-8 format. I can open up the notepad file in notepad and see greek. When I go to open the file in textpad I get a popup with

WARNING: greek.txt contains characters that do not exist in code page 1251 (ANSI - Latin I). They will be converted to system default, click ok

how do i get textpad to use utf-8 or unicode?

also if i try to copy and paste greek into textpad i get a bunch of ????? I tried making a file and saving it as utf-8, then copy and paste the greek and it does not work.

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also if i try to copy and paste greek into textpad i get a bunch of ?????

I tried making a file and saving it as utf-8, then copy and paste the greek and it does not work.

1. I changed my default encoding to utf-8, does not work.
2. changed my font to the same font I had by default in notepad Lucida Console (set language to greek)

[guess]

also if i try to copy and paste greek into textpad i get a bunch of ?????

I tried making a file and saving it as utf-8, then copy and paste the greek and it does not work.

[Mike Olds]

Try this:

http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php ... ment+class

In TextPad, Look up creating a new document class.

If you are not always working in Greek, you might want to create a .gk document class pointing to your installed monospace Greek font.

[smjg]

how do i get textpad to use utf-8 or unicode?

You don't.

TextPad doesn't support Unicode. Many of us have campaigned, so far unsuccessfully, for Helios to get out of the dark ages.

Unicode yet again - when and how it should be approached

Unicode Conformance