notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8-BOM") is language dependent

[Christian M]

When Notepad++ language is set to something other than English:
notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8")
Will not be found, well that's to be expected but it seems the enum:
notepad.menuCommand(MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_CONV2_UTF_8)
Converts to UTF8 with BOM and I can't find a version without BOM.
It be nice to have both enums to convert to UTF8 with and without BOM.

I recently discovered this little plugin and I'm very excited to all the things I'm going to be able to automate from now on ^^ Thank you so much.

[Sasumner]

Not 100% certain, but perhaps MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_CONV2_AS_UTF_8

[Christian M]

That was it, to summarize:

• MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_AS_UTF_8 -> to UTF8 without BOM
• MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_CONV2_AS_UTF_8 -> to UTF8 without BOM
• MENUCOMMAND.FORMAT_CONV2_UTF_8 -> to UTF8 with BOM

Thanks!

Side note:
notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8")
will convert to UTF8 without BOM
notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8-BOM")
will convert with BOM

But it only works when Notepad++ language is set to English

[Sasumner]

Regarding "English"...for whatever localization you're using, can't you just replace the strings with whatever are appropriate for the language, and have it work?

[Christian M]

Well for certain languages it's really hard to guess what character coding where used to represent the string in the menu. But just for giggles I challenged myself and tried, after failing a few times to infer from the menu what it was, and when I was about to give up, I had the idea to look up the raw translation in xml:
https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/tree/master/PowerEditor/installer/nativeLang

My language is Japanese so the corresponding entries in the xml are:

<Item menuId="encoding" name="エンコード(&amp;N)"/>
<Item id="45010" name="UTF-8 に変換"/>

Which actually translates to:
notepad.runMenuCommand("エンコード(N)", "UTF-8 に変換")

What a journey XD