Ben Segall: > Currently if you attempt to paste UTF-8 characters into a buffer which > is in 8 bit encoding mode, SciTE fails silently. I find this annoying > because for a while I couldn't figure out why this was happening. I > think it would be better to tell the user that you can't paste UTF-8 > or Unicode into an 8 bit encoded buffer.
And often it does work or it could work partially. It would be good to do better here. > Alternatively you could paste > the 8 bit representation or automatically change the buffer to UTF-8. Changing encoding is a major operation and may make your file unuseable. > On a related note, is there a way to set the default encoding to be > UTF-8, especially on new, unsaved buffers? Its annoying that SciTE > requires me to choose UTF-8, while most other programs do it by > default (my locale is set to en_US.UTF-8). Setting code.page to 65001 > doesn't quite do this - it just makes "8 bit" really mean "UTF-8", > which makes it UTF-8 by default, but loses the ability to do 8 bit. File | New should change to determine the encoding from code.page. Neil _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
