[Geany-Users] extended characters

Ray Andrews rayandrews at xxxxx
Fri Jan 15 23:20:20 UTC 2021


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.
Thanks Matt.




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