How come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?

Vasile Caraus

how come I have two types of fonts in my sentences? I pasted from the internet, and forget it’s a different font, just that line. So, if I want to intentionally change the font of a line, or just a word, how do I do that?

Is it possible if I copy/paste text taken from somewhere on the internet, or from a docx file, to keep the fonts there (italic, bold, font size)?

PeterJones

@Vasile-Caraus said in How come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?:

how come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?

Possibly syntax highlighting; what is the Language menu selection?

Or possibly characters that aren’t found in the current font, so Windows CompositeFont logic picks a font that does have those glyphs. (Though normally CompositeFonts are on a single-character basis, so unless the O carte aren’t the “normal” unicode characters, but actually some fancy characters – maybe subscript or the SpAMaVoiDaNce characters – then I’m not sure why they would use the CompositeFonts feature of Windows)

You haven’t given us enough to go on, and since you just gave us an image, there is no way for us to experiment or try to replicate your problem. (To provide text, copy it from Notepad++, then hit the </> button on the toolbar while writing your reply, and paste the example text between the ``` lines)

So, if I want to intentionally change the font of a line, or just a word, how do I do that?

You cannot. Notepad++ doesn’t allow manually changing fonts; it’s a text editor, not a word processor (see our FAQ entry for more). Any font differences you see are due to syntax highlighting or possibly CompositeFont issues

Is it possible if I copy/paste text taken from somewhere on the internet, or from a docx file, to keep the fonts there (italic, bold, font size)?

Nope.

Coises

@Vasile-Caraus said in How come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?:

how come I have two types of fonts in my sentences? I pasted from the internet, and forget it’s a different font, just that line. So, if I want to intentionally change the font of a line, or just a word, how do I do that?

Is it possible if I copy/paste text taken from somewhere on the internet, or from a docx file, to keep the fonts there (italic, bold, font size)?

Looking at your image, I would say almost certainly the person who created the text you copied used something like this:

https://www.namecheap.com/visual/font-generator/serif/

to make it. The characters that look that way are not ordinary letters. If you search for carte you won’t find it — because it’s actually 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞, which are completely different Unicode symbols from this block.

It’s a “trick” — and one of the reasons it usually a bad idea is that you’ll find there’s no easy way to replace the characters you copied with “normal” text.

Vasile Caraus

Yes, you can copy the sentence in this kind of Font Generator, it will look diferent in notepad++.

https://tools.picsart.com/text/font-generator/

But, that sentence was copy directly from a facebook page. Copy all text from the page below, and see the result in notepad++

https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=924634622799478&id=100057588462518&_rdr

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Coises

@Vasile-Caraus said in How come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?:

Yes, you can copy the sentence in this kind of Font Generator, it will look diferent in notepad++.

https://tools.picsart.com/text/font-generator/

But, that sentence was copy directly from a facebook page. Copy all text from the page below, and see the result in notepad++

https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=924634622799478&id=100057588462518&_rdr

.

You can copy it right here, too:

🔜📗 O nouă ediție, în colecția „Raftul Denisei”:
𝐓𝐚𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢 𝐘𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐚 – 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒂̆𝒊𝒏𝒊
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The person who created that post did so using a font generator page or the equivalent. Paste it into Notepad++, select just the c at the start of colecția in the first line, then select Plugins | Converter | ASCII -> HEX. You’ll see it change to 63. Now do the same with the 𝐜 at the beginning of 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞 in the bold quotation. You’ll see it change to F09D909C (UTF-8 for MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL C).

It’s not a bold serif font, it’s a completely different set of characters.

Vasile Caraus

@Coises

The problem was something else. If I copy from somewhere else, and it has a different font, how do I keep the font the same as the other sentences?

PeterJones

@Vasile-Caraus said in How come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?:

The problem was something else.

No, that’s exactly the problem you are describing. You just are not understanding the issue yet.

If I copy from somewhere else, and it has a different font, how do I keep the font the same as the other sentences?

You have still not understood @Coises . That is not a different FONT you are seeing. That is different characters, which look different, even if they are part of the same font…

If I type “O carte | 𝐎 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞” here, I am not bolding those characters in the forum, and it is not just that I’m telling the forum to present those characters in a different font. They are literally separate Unicode characters. The first is just me typing the normal characters; the second is me copying @Coises example text from the facebook post you linked to. If you were to paste the words from my quotes into Notepad++ and search for carte, there would be only one match, because they are literally different characters, and not the same text.

You keep saying “font”, but it’s not a font difference – it’s a character difference. The bytes that are in the file (and that Facebook is sending when you look at the post you linked to) for “𝐎 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞” are literally different than the bytes that would be used for “O carte”. It’s different characters, NOT a different font.

Coises

@Vasile-Caraus said in How come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?:

If I copy from somewhere else, and it has a different font, how do I keep the font the same as the other sentences?

You can’t fix it within Notepad++, but you might be able to get the result you need by pasting the text into this page:

https://yaytext.com/unstyle/

and then pasting those results into Notepad++. With this particular text, something in it is making that web site reverse the text (right-to-left) when you paste the whole text, so you have to do it piece by piece. I don’t know if that’s a bug in the web site or something peculiar in the text.