@guy038 Merci beaucoup!

@ThosRTanner said: This doesn’t seem terribly useful for an installation package though. This is exactly my use case: I download the zip archive end selectively extract only changed files. Some of the files in my installation I explicitly do NOT want to get overwritten. In the end it is really just a matter of taste. And I really appreciate the possibility to choose my desired format. From this I support the current situation, that both format are presented for download.

The Python script I posted is expected to handle single byte errors from UTF8 decoding. Asian languages can be 2 byte for ANSI and so the script may need to get the following byte too to decode both bytes properly. Probably will not find recovery tools and the like that will fix mixed encoding errors as the solution in some cases might be worse then the problem though in this case tested OK. Once saved, then there might be no going back and so creating a backup before the operation would be wise. Inspect the results to confirm is OK.

@rafaello , IANAL, and I don’t own the trademark, but with your clarifications and updates, I believe you’re probably not violating the trademark (IMO). It’s good to see someone who is willing to accept such feedback (rather than digging in your heels for a while, like happened with the aforementioned fork).

@PeterJones Worked perfectly, thank you.

@Claudia-Svenson said: Possibly it was introduced only recently Nope. But it isn’t exactly obvious what its function is, based only upon the UI text.

Hi, @coises, In my opinion, this option seems more like a way of working than a delete option. So, I think this option should remain active between Notepad++ sessions. Note that it’s presently the case within the N++ Search results panel. But, of course, on re-opening N++, the N++ Search results and the Search++ Results panels are both cleared silently, before any search ! After opening Notepad+ and a first search, involving the N++ Search results or the Search Results panels, you can easily un-check that Purge option if you plan to compare multiple searches ! BR guy038

@PeterJones Perfect thank you very much!

@rdipardo thank you for pointing that out. I will check and do the needful.

@Sylvester-Bullitt , Release Candidate is available. You probably want to test this version, and report any continued problems with the Open File feature ASAP.

because it appears those actually return from the enum UniMode, which is enum UniMode {uni8Bit=0, uniUTF8=1, uni16BE=2, uni16LE=3, uniCookie=4, uni7Bit=5, uni16BE_NoBOM=6, uni16LE_NoBOM=7, uniEnd}; according to the source code. In N++ commit 8149f72 in v8.8.8 (Nov 2025), uniCookie has been renamed as uniUTF8_NoBOM inside the N++ source. Thus, I just put in PythonScript Issue #421 to request that there’s a BUFFERENCODING.UTF8_NOBOM, either as replacement or alias of the old meaninglessly-named BUFFERENCODING.COOKIE … I don’t know if it will happen, but at least the request is in. :-)

Another example can be seen at https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/27601/with-the-help-of-a-regex-how-to-find-code-preceded-by-a-only-if-code-is-absent-between-style-and-style-in-the-css-section-which-is-below/4