#736 SciTE properties files should use UTF-8 encoding (+BOM)

[redstun]

I'm using SciTE 2.22 on Windows, the properties files seem to be encoded in Windows-1252, which SciTE does not have built-in support.

The consequence, in case code.page=65001 insdead of 0, the file SciTEGlobal.properties cannot be displayed correctly, specifically, it's the following line
chars.accented=...

Since SciTE has built-in support for As UTF-8, with or without BOM, It's better to encode the properties files in UTF-8 with BOM, so that they can be displayed correctly regardless current code.page

[Neil Hodgson]

Some settings, such as chars.alpha, are a string of arbitrary bytes and so may not be valid UTF-8. Therefore, SciTE does not specify a fixed encoding for .properties files.

[redstun]

Ah, interesting to know that chars.alpha is a string of arbitrary bytes.

But actually in default SciTEGlobal.properties. it's the following
chars.alpha=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

What I see is that all the chars in chars.alpha are pretty valid, plain old alpha,

Therefore, may I ask they're treated that why? shouldn't it be true that regardless the in-memory presentation, they always end up to be treated as characters?

Thanks

[Neil Hodgson]

The implementation was simple and worked well for single byte character sets.