does Textpad really handle Unicode characters?
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:49 am
I am using TP 5.2.
In Preferences, I set .txt files to use Arial Unicode MS for both printer and screen, since that font has great Unicode coverage.
I then tried copying known unicode stuff (Chinese chars copied from a wikipedia page) to a newly created .txt file. The chars, however, always show up as ??.
Note that I tried ALL 3 of the Unicode encodings in the Save dialog box (UTF-8, Unicode, and Unicode big endian)--all fail.
Also, I know that the copying process must be good, because if I paste into MS Word with that Arial Unicode MS font, the chars all show up correct.
So it must be a bug in Textpad, right?
Or am I doing something wrong?
In Preferences, I set .txt files to use Arial Unicode MS for both printer and screen, since that font has great Unicode coverage.
I then tried copying known unicode stuff (Chinese chars copied from a wikipedia page) to a newly created .txt file. The chars, however, always show up as ??.
Note that I tried ALL 3 of the Unicode encodings in the Save dialog box (UTF-8, Unicode, and Unicode big endian)--all fail.
Also, I know that the copying process must be good, because if I paste into MS Word with that Arial Unicode MS font, the chars all show up correct.
So it must be a bug in Textpad, right?
Or am I doing something wrong?