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Neil Hodgson wrote:
> 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.
>
Ok, I was just listing possible changes that I could think of.
>> 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.
>
>
That would definitely deal with my particular complaint.
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