@KOMN-W said:

I am having trouble with notepad++

But you didn’t say anything about the trouble you’re having with Notepad++!

@PeterJones

since two of the forum’s python experts are not actively helping here anymore, I need to up my PythonScript output …

i really wished there was an easy way to lure both back somehow … for example with a complementary free cake for all returning members 🥧🍰🎂 :D

i’ve still got the hope that someday maybe one or both will return for either historic, good times reasons, or 'cause you lured them back with future’s most ultimate py guru knowledge 👍
(ps: no pressure, i think your py is already pretty good and way better than eg. mine)

reader’s note:
this was slightly off topic, so i give my sincere apologies to everyone in advance.

@guy038 said:

Thanks @guy038 you are a star. I misread and thought everything needed to be on a single line. You new regex works perfectly.

Sometimes instead of UTF-8 it defines windows-1258

Alan, Thank You for your answer!

@guy038

there’s more than that broken with the current auto detection !
same vietnamese detection happens if you save the word “Réservation” to a new utf-8 file and reopen,

so only the combination of ï and é in the same document is detected correctly, é only will detect it as vietnamese

this did not happen prior to this commit that @Eko-palypse mentioned.

You may, also, convert your file to the UTF-8-BOM encoding

this is not possible in many cases, because those files like in this case are in an open source repository.

same with spanish, exept if i have an ñ in my documents, so i didn’t notice it before, as most of them have an ñ.
german characters work ok so far.

I am using Autohotkey, and what worked for me is adding an ‘$’ before the hotkey as in ‘$^v::’ (Ctrl+v). Read about the prefix ‘$’ here: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm

Thank you both very much!

@gurikbal-singh

afaik, there is no npp api function available to find out if a file is dirty or not.
As said, you can either compare the current buffer with the file on disk
or check the menu save item if it is disabled or enabled.

@Barry-Alter

thanks for the thanks ;-)
if any specific answer(s) were helpful, please don’t hesitate to also give it/them an upvote

You guys are a rough unforgiving group

it depends on who is online first, as you can see in my detailed direct response to you.
i didn’t even look up if you already asked the same question, even if i had a kind of deja vu.

maybe you guys could lighten up a bit.

most of us are, including defending your question (i quote myself: maybe it’s his first fresh install in two years and the how to’s got forgotten through time.)
so don’t hesitate to ask any time again