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ANSI vs UNICODE

steves
2009-08-25
2012-11-14
  • steves

    steves - 2009-08-25

    Dear group

    Have just recently found NP++ , congrats to all. Found it really easy to use so far.

    My question is as follows

    Am using the ANSI ver on .(5.1.1) XP Pro SP 3

    l and can read the plain txt file in everything on my notebook ie Win Notepad, Word etc BUT have sent this file to my Designer who uses a Mac  and she reports that the "text has odd things in place of apostrophes and quotation marks"

    What is the diff between the ANSI and the UNICODE ver of NP++ and should either use the UNICODE ver or convert this file to another format.

    Any help would really be appreciated.

    Regards

     
    • Fabio

      Fabio - 2009-08-25

      The only reason to choose the older ANSI version instead of the newer Unicode one is support to old, unconverted plugins. Since you have discovered N++ only recently, you sure don't have these problems, thus I'd say you should get the Unicode version.

      On more thing that could help you (though I doubt it) is using the "Convert to MAC format" command from the "Format" menu. To see the difference, go to the "View" menu and choose "Show symbol -> Show all characters". You will see that whenever you use the Return key to start a new line, in Windows you have two characters, Carriage return and Line Feed; on the other hand, MAC only uses the Carriage return one (while Linux only uses Line Feed). This MIGHT cause some problems if you open a Windows file with a MAC-specific program.

      If this doesn't solve it... I don't know what to tell you. :-(

       
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