[Geany-Users] extended characters

[Lex Trotman]

On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 at 09:20, Ray Andrews <rayandrews at eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2021-01-15 1:16 p.m., Matthew Brush wrote:
> > On 2021-01-15 8:14 a.m., Ray Andrews wrote:
> >> All:
> >>
> >> I can enter UTF-8 characters using the ever so easy to remember
> >> "CTRL+SHIFT+u ... four digits ... ENTER" method, but it won't save:
> >>
> >> "An error occurred while converting the file from UTF-8 in
> >> "ISO-8859-1". The file remains unsaved."
> >>
> >> Is there a solution?  Actually I don't even need UTF, but I would
> >> like to add, say ASCII #127 or another ASCII extended character.
> >>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Probably to best solution in 2021 is to just switch the file to use
> > UTF-8 (which should be the default IMO, even on Windows).
> >
> > Per Document:
> >   Document->Set Encoding->Unicode->Unicode (UTF-8)
> >
> > Default:
> >   Edit->Preferences->Files->Default Encoding
> That's what it always has been, yet when I set the encoding for the
> document itself, everything is fine, so go figger.

Changing the global default does not change the encoding for files
already open, thats why you had to change it for the file as well.

Cheers
Lex

> Thanks Matt.
>
>
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