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Global encoding setting

2008-03-10
2012-11-13
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    Would it be possible to keep some sort of global encoding setting, so that for example UTF-8 without BOM is used, both for opening and saving, if no explicit encoding can be detected?

    The problem is that I wish to encode everything in UTF-8, but not all my files actually include characters that exceed ASCII. Therefore, even though I save them as UTF-8 without BOM, they get reopened as ANSI. And even though I add UTF-8 characters later on, the always get saved as ANSI (unless I explicitly change the encoding again).

    Thank you for this great piece of software!
    -khu

     
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      [original poster again]

      Okay, I'm not really sure how things get saved anymore, and if the encoding of choice sticks or not. But at least it SAYS that it's ANSI every time I open a file that contains weird characters and was saved as UTF-8 without BOM.

       
      • Anonymous

        Anonymous - 2008-03-12

        I'm having the same problem. When ever I open a utf-8 without BOM encoded file notepad++ auto-detects it as ANSI. I know that without the BOM notepad++ gets confused but I'm hoping there is some way to give utf-8 w/o BOM a higher priority.