Re: [ jEdit-users ] utf-8 encoding problem ('special' characters)

[Christian Q. <wil...@tz...>]

On Saturday 26 January 2008 07:35:25 Marcelo Vanzin wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Jan 25, 2008 9:07 PM, Christian Quast <wil...@tz...> wrote:
> > when I try
> > to enter German 'Umlaute' or any other non-ascii character like the Yen
> > (=A5). I start jEdit with no files open (empty buffer). Whatever non-as=
cii
> > character I enter it ends up being a box.
>
> This sounds like your text area is using a font that does not support
> UTF-8. I just tried typing a bunch of weird characters here and it
> works fine (I'm using "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono").

Dear Marcelo,

I am using the same font you are using and as I have written in the next=20
paragraph everything works fine once the 'save as' or 'buffer options'=20
dialogs were opened...


=2D-=20
sincerely=20
  Christian Quast

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