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yawnmoth
I want to save a *.txt file with ê in it, however, I absolutely do
not want the document saved in UTF-8 and I do not want a byte-order-
mark prepended to the document. Unfortunately, it'd appear that this
is quite impossible.
I create a document with ê in it, set the Encoding to ASCII (which,
at this point, is the default encoding) and save it. I close Notepad
and open it and... it's not ê - it's ê. I replace ê with ê and try
to do Save As, again. Now, the encoding is defaulting to UTF-8. I
change it to ASCII and try to save it, again, and then I reopen it.
Same thing. Instead of seeing ê, I'm seeing ê.
I like Notepad because it's a lightweight text editor that's installed
by default on every Windows computer. Am I going to have to start
installing a third party text editor because Notepad doesn't correctly
handle character encodings?
not want the document saved in UTF-8 and I do not want a byte-order-
mark prepended to the document. Unfortunately, it'd appear that this
is quite impossible.
I create a document with ê in it, set the Encoding to ASCII (which,
at this point, is the default encoding) and save it. I close Notepad
and open it and... it's not ê - it's ê. I replace ê with ê and try
to do Save As, again. Now, the encoding is defaulting to UTF-8. I
change it to ASCII and try to save it, again, and then I reopen it.
Same thing. Instead of seeing ê, I'm seeing ê.
I like Notepad because it's a lightweight text editor that's installed
by default on every Windows computer. Am I going to have to start
installing a third party text editor because Notepad doesn't correctly
handle character encodings?