[Geany-Users] extended characters

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Fri Jan 15 21:16:35 UTC 2021


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

Then you can use the Ctrl+Shift+u method. UTF-8 overlaps with ASCII for 
the first 127 characters. I believe all of the characters in all the 
various "extended" ASCII codepages can be represented in Unicode as well.

If you must use ISO-8859-1 encoding, I don't know the answer since Geany 
doesn't seem to support the Alt+<NumPadDigits> way that other apps like 
Notepad support.

Regards,
Matthew Brush


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