Clipboard Text use UTF-8

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riow
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Clipboard Text use UTF-8

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Hi there, could anyone please let me know how to change the format of pasting texts into to a "Clipboard Text" file using UTF-8 rather Unicode?
AllenT
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Re: Clipboard Text use UTF-8

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riow wrote:how to change the format of pasting texts into to a "Clipboard Text" file using UTF-8 rather Unicode
For some years now, I have been involved with (and ALWAYS use) an excellent text editor out of Russia. Try AkelPad - it handles all formats of text (Unicode, non-Unicode, etc., with/without leading Byte-Order-Marks) and can convert easily. After opening the file, you can save it using any codepage you have on your system. Clipboard text (on Explorer++) is saved as UTF-16LE (no BOM - David, are you reading this?); you can save the file as UTF-8 with/without BOM (your choice). The BOM (Byte Order Mark) is not necessary for most text editors, but is recommended - it identifies the file as UTF-16 LE, UTF-16 BE, UTF-8, etc. and is ignored by any decent text editor.

I recommend the "archive" version (no installer), although the installer works fine. Help file (my creation) is a separate download, but unfortunately does not integrate into the editor. You can integrate it using the toolbar plugin (plugins are available here). There is a very outdated help file for some of the plugins available on the plugin download page, but it covers many of the plugins in detail.
David Erceg
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Re: Clipboard Text use UTF-8

Post by David Erceg »

A UTF-16 LE BOM is now written when pasting text; the fix will be part of 1.3.5.
riow
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Re: Clipboard Text use UTF-8

Post by riow »

I sometimes use Smartphone to read text files pasted in E++. But those files will not be readable in the phone because of the format saved by E++, unless it's in UTF-8. I'm not sure if UTF-16 can be read.

Thanks for the AkelPad editor which is really a serious text format editor.
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