SciTe doesn't write correctly from clipboard

[mireazma]

1. It says in the Help that you have to use ctrl+c in order to avoid transcripting errors from Window info into the script, as some characters can't be easily (if at all) written by hand.

That's what I did and when I ran my script there was an error somewhere. It took me some time until I figured out it was caused by a mistranscription by SciTe. I even copied/pasted several times and then I saw it: it was a single character that instead of 'ă' it wrote 'a'.

I checked the transcription in notepad and it was correct.

I looked for a possible auto-correct option in options tab in SciTe but I couldn't find one.

What to do?

2. Can I see the intellisense tip again about a function, once I've written after it?

3. Are the brackets interpreted while written into a double quote string? I know that in some languages, in order to get the actual special character, you have to format it with / or something. Is there a table with the special characters that can't be written "as is" into a string?

Thanks in advance.

[MvGulik]

whatever Edited February 7, 2011 by MvGulik

[mireazma]

Thank you for replying to all my questions.

1. I tried your code and as expected it worked just fine. The fact is I've noticed that there's no way at all I could get the 'ă' char inside SciTe; not even by manually typing it, not by find / replace, not in any way. So it's not from the clip. My guess is that there must be an auto-correct option that I must uncheck somewhere.

I was referring to the tutorial Notepad in the AutoIt Help. But it doesn't matter now...

2. It works! with the opening '('

3. I asked that because SciTe colored the opening/enclosing pair of brackets in light blue inside the green quoted string.

So now having all of the other issues solved, I'm stuck with the 'a' char problem and cannot go on with the scripting.

[MvGulik]

whatever Edited February 7, 2011 by MvGulik

[mireazma]

I looked for the 'ă' char in the Character Map and found it is "U+0103:Latin Small Letter A With Breve" I copy it, and when I paste it in SciTE 'a' appears; when I paste it in Notepad, 'ă' appears.

I appreciate you want to help me but it seems I'll have to write from now on in the plain Notepad. Too bad...

[Jos]

Did you try changing the encoding used under file?

[GEOSoft]

Use what Jos suggested. Change the encoding to one of the UTF-8 options. Since he is the Scite master (but not the Code Master) then I would suggest that paying attention to what he says will solve a lot of issues.

[mireazma]

That was it?

I could never have guessed it. Yes, it works now, thank you all.

Excuse my suggestion, but shouldn't it be set as default? or at least put a warn somewhere in plain view for all to see. Man, go figure I considered changing the text editor...

[Jos]

That was it?

I could never have guessed it. Yes, it works now, thank you all.

Excuse my suggestion, but shouldn't it be set as default? or at least put a warn somewhere in plain view for all to see. Man, go figure I considered changing the text editor...

I wouldn't want all scriptfiles to be UNICODE by default.

You can set your own defaults by setting the correct parameters in sciteuser.properties.

code.page

output.code.page

character.set

Explanation for these can be found in the helpfile.

Jos

[mireazma]

Thanks. Man how I hate that dum-bas who made the stupid program with unusual chars. And so to be just perfect, in several buttons he put the & (alt+) just on the funny char in the whole word. He did it on purpose. I just can't move along cause I'm stuck and have to bear with the stupid chars. Man I have a heartache, really. I can't use another program cause it's specifically for my job.

I hardly managed to find sciteuser.properties (a blank page opened). What do I have to write in here? And what about the code.page or the others? Please help me reduce my handicap so I can start scripting from 0 instead of -10 already. Man, it's like reading in a mirror an upside down newspaper...

[MvGulik]

whatever Edited February 7, 2011 by MvGulik

[mireazma]

Thank you. Whew. Now my file works without modifying the code page every time I start SciTe. All I had to do was to add character.set=238 (East European)in SciTeGlobal.properties and I didn't have to modify code.page (was/is 0). However, the code page in the main menu automatically sets to UCS-2 Little Endian.

Edited March 23, 2010 by mireazma