Hi, one of the biggest struggle to me is to guess the right character set for a file you open in PSPad. Yes, you can specify it, but I'm working in a team (with people tending to use different editors) so you never know exactly how somebody else wrote the file.
I think PSPad has an internal list where it keeps track of the character set used last time when editing the file, but this still leaves the first open operation to be carefully chosen by the user. I would like to suggest as a new feature to additionally support the EMACS way of telling the editor which character set it should use. The first line of a file has to contain a string like: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- To avoid problems, this is usually inside a comment of the used language: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- or /* -*- coding: utf-8 -*- */ or // -*- coding: utf-8 -*- This would persistently make sure that the file is opened using the right character set. And it even would let EMACS- and PSPad-Lover work smoothly together :-) I'm no expert in EMACS, but I feel this could be a valuable enhancement of character set handling in PSPad. For more details see http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Recognize-Coding.html#R ecognize-Coding Keep up the good work! Holger -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,42161,42161> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
