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Unicode support
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:22 am
by Francois
Hi,
A basic question. I have a multilingual file (with Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic, Arabic and Greek characters) encoded in utf-8 and also in utf-16.
How do I open these two files, edit and save them with Textpad?
Francois
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:53 pm
by s_reynisson
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typing UNICODE.
Hope that helps!
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:38 pm
by ben_josephs
TextPad is not a Unicode editor. In a single document you can only view characters that are represented in a single font and script. You can set the script with
View | Document Properties | Font | Script
I believe this means that you can't, for example, view Chinese and Arabic characters in one document at one time.
As Unicode becomes more widely used, TextPad will have to become more Unicode-friendly if it is not to lose many of its current users and if it is to gain many new users.
Unicode/UTF-8 needed!
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:02 am
by lindamarcella
Today I copied some code from the web for a project on multilingual websites that had English and Hebrew interspersed. I saved it in UTF-8 from Word. IT looked fine in Word and fine in the browser.
When I reopen it in Word, word detects the <html> tag at the beginning and adds all kinds of garbage, so I don't want to save it again. I guess there is a DreamWeaver option to remove Windows garbage but I don't have DreamWeaver.
So then, I try opening the HTML file in TextPad by specifying UTF-8 in the Open dialog. But when I look at it, it changes the Hebrew letters to ????s It gives me a message that this is not in CP1252 format - yes, I know, what an odd message, as I have just specified UTF-8.
If I save the file, then view it again in a browser, now all the Hebrew characters have been replaced by ???s.
Please support Unicode/UTF-8 soon.
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:58 pm
by AndrewB
I would also like better unicode support.
I had to download a few unicode editors from a google search to finally get one that could edit an INI file without messing it up.