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Not sure where to post this...

I understand textpad is unicode savy?
16-bit Unicode, UTF-8 and 8-bit text files with single and double byte characters can be edited.
from http://www.textpad.com/products/textpad ... tions.html

Why does it bark when you attempt to open UTF-8/16 "Warning" xxxx" contains characters that do not exist in code page 1252 (ANSI - Latin 1).

And by default they convert to ?...symbols.

Is this as intended? Seems like an obvious issue if Textpad can't open native unicode document.

PS. Love the tool. Though I still miss the old 4xx feel.

This has been much discussed here.

TextPad does not properly support Unicode: it displays each document using only a single 8-bit character set (a "code page" or "script"). The range of code pages available depends on the font you are using. You can select the code page at
Configure | Preferences | Document Classes | <Class> | Font | Script
or
View | Document Properties | Font | Script.

Here is a correspondence between some script names and code pages: If all the characters in your document are in a single code page and if that code page is available, select it. Otherwise TextPad will not display all the characters correctly.

Thanks for the heads up. I couldn't find what I was asking searching.

So it's not truly unique savy. Bummer.

I wish they would fix it. I mean open office supports it.

Seems kind of limited if it can't see multi-format characterset characters.

Especially in the internationl ways of the world ...pretty commonplace to find charactersets spanning between utf ranges. Especially in stuff like load files.

Thanks for the confirmation... (Hope they fix it)

scaevola wrote:Thanks for the heads up. I couldn't find what I was asking searching.

So it's not truly unique savy. Bummer.

TextPad doesn't support Unicode. We've been asking for it for years but Helios refuse to answer us. See
http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=4777
http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=9683