UTF-8 encoded strings are not supported in Notepad++

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Hi,

I need to add some Russian language strings in Notepad++. So I added and encoded those strings to UTF-8. If I see added strings in my application, those are showing as changed strings. If I encoded as ANSI, Russian strings are displaying as junk character.

Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 29-Apr-12 2:39am

divirakshana

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Apr-12 8:47am

Not clear how did you "added" strings in UTF-8. What is your application and why it uses Notepad++? Did you try to open the file encoded as UTF-8 in Notepad++? Did it work? If it works (I believe it should), your code should also work.
--SA

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Espen Harlinn · Answer 1 · 2012-04-29T11:26:00

Solution 3

Have a look at the Scintilla Documentation[^].

Scintilla is the editor component of Notepad++, and it looks like utf-8 is the default for GTK+ builds only.

Best regards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 29-Apr-12 11:26am

Espen Harlinn

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Apr-12 21:56pm

Good point, my 5.
I still think that for Windows UTF-16LE should do the trick.
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2012-04-29T02:49:00

Solution 1

Try UTF-16LE. This is the default encoding used in Windows, when Unicode text is presented in memory.

Please see my comment to the question — you did not provide enough information to be 100% sure on what are you trying to do.

—SA

Posted 29-Apr-12 2:49am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

phil.o · Answer 3 · 2012-04-29T04:16:00

Solution 2

I would do as SA stated, using UTF-16LE (which in .NET can be obtained simply by System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.

Note that you should set the first 2 bits of the file to FF FE, which is the little-endian byte order mark. It will tell Notepad++ which type of text file it has to deal with.

Posted 29-Apr-12 4:16am

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divirakshana 30-Apr-12 3:42am

Thanks for the reply.

What is the difference between ANSI and UCS-2 Little Endian? If i use UCS-2 Little Endian instead of ANSI, any problems will come? Because UCS-2 Little Endian is working fine for me.

Please suggest me.