#21 French keyboard support

[Alain Plaisance]

Hi, On Windows XP, I am Using THE to edit Scripts where I have to issue messages in French but when I type French within THE it shows up correctly but not when the application is run. The opposite is also true; If I edit with Notepad everything is fine. However, if I edit the script with THE, all accented characters come out wrong (Weard symbols). How can I fix this. Or can someone provide a mod to THE to make this work. I was surprised not to find anyone with my problem. It seems Windows is now using UTF-8 for all "text" types of files. I am scripting in AutoHotKey which is fantastic and FreeWare.

Thanks for any support,

Alain

[Finn Skovgaard]

I have no solution. I use a Danish keyboard and tried typing the following in a test.rex program using THE:

say 'æøå ÆØÅ áéíóúý àèìòù äëïöüÿ âêîôû ÁÉÍÓÚÝ ÀÈÌÒÙ ÄËÏÖÜ ÂÊÎÔÛ'

It all comes out fine in the DOS window on XP.

But THE won't let me enter characters using Alt and the numeric keyboard, such as çÇœŒ¡¿¼¾®©µ.

If I then open the file with Notepad, it is all garbled. When I execute it, the characters edited by THE look fine and the characters entered by Notepad are garbled.

If I copy and paste it all from THE into html in Outlook, the characters entered in THE are fine and those entered from Notepad garbled.
If I copy and paste the same lines from Notepad into Outlook, the characters entered in Notepad look fine and those from THE garbled.

It is beyond my knowledge to explain this. It looks codepage related, not keyboard related.