SciTE4AutoIt3 - encoding/input problem

[TNO]

Hello,

I've just switched to Windows 10 (from Windows 8.1) and latest AutoiT (and SciTE4AutoIt3 from version 3.4.1 :/ ) version.

Everything works smoothly except one issue in SciTE4AutoIt3 editor.

I'm using Polish localized Windows and all applications. The files encoded in ANSI displays with no Polish special characters like ąćęłńóśżź. Instead of that we have ¹æê³ñ󜿟.
It simply means that default codepage for the ANSI file is Western. In addition the keyboard input is also switched to Western (no Polish characters).
UTF files works fine.

I've tried several settings with code.page and so on with no success.

From the other hand, my old version of SciTE (3.4.1) works fine, polish characters are displayed and input works as it should be.

I have done a test by putting SciTEGlobal.properties file from old version to new version installation directory. The effect is that ANSI file is displayed properly but keyboard input is still in Western mode.

Looking for AutoIt / SciTE proffesional to help me with this annoying "feature". I don't want to switch to other editor because I love SciTE other functions like debugging and tidying.

[Jos]

18 minutes ago, TNO said:

Looking for AutoIt / SciTE proffesional to help me with this annoying "feature".

mmm professional help ....   guess I do need to setup that hotline for support and charge an hefty fee.

As to your issue: Have you checked what the encoding is when you open the files that is displayed wrong as thye default has changed from ANSI to UTF8 w/o BOM unless highvalue ANSO characters are found in the file? Check under file/encoding what it is for that file.
As to defaults for ANSI codepage: there are several setting in SciTEGlobal.properties which you could override by specifying your own defaults in SciTEUSer.properties. Don't do that in SciTEGlobal.properties as that file is updated with each release.

Look in the at the SciTE documentation page for these keywords:

• code.page
• output.code.page
• character.set

Jos

 

[TNO]

9 hours ago, Jos said:

Look in the at the SciTE documentation page for these keywords:

• character.set

Yos, Thank You very much for Your professional help for f(r)ee. 

Settting character.set=238 was the solution I needed. Now it works as it should be.

 

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[jchd]

I'd rather suggest you use UTF8 instead to avoid surprises.

Codepages are evil.

[TNO]

4 hours ago, jchd said:

I'd rather suggest you use UTF8 instead to avoid surprises.

And I'm using it wherever I can. The problem was with old (but still working) script file and SciTE editor not the AutoIt runtime.

Kind regards!

[jchd]

To convert an old source file from locale codepage to UTF8, open it, change encoding to UTF8 (File > Encoding > UTF8), apply a dummy change (add space then remove it) and save it.