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Re: [TSVN] [OT] TextPad & Unicode (Was Re: Nightly builds?)

From: SteveKing <steveking_at_gmx.ch>
Date: 2004-08-25 20:30:29 CEST

James Chaldecott wrote:
> Martin Eckardt wrote:
>
>> ok what file editor do you use? i use textpad and it shows me at the
>> bottom that the file is UTF-8.
>
>
> Just a quick note from a lurker. :-)
>
> I use (& love) TextPad, too, but note that it isn't really Unicode
> capable. Although it can save in UTF-8, etc, it uses MBCS internally.
>
> If you have a document with characters in it that don't exist in the
> codepage it is using when it loads the document then they get changed
> into '?' and don't get changed back when you save (even if you save in
> Unicode).
>
> Explained better here:
> http://textpad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4777

I already knew this. But thanks for the explanation.
If that happens, I usually set the correct codepage, close TextPad
without saving the file and open it again. Then it is loaded with the
last set codepage and everything is fine.

Stefan

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