Notepad++ and wrong ANSII encoding

LuciferSam86 · Sep 21, 2017, 3:48 PM

Hello everybody : I have the following C# code which converts an UTF8 W/O BOM into an Windows-1252 textfile:

        string inputstring = File.ReadAllText(@"c:\tmp\stringa.txt");
        

        var srcEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
        var destEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252);

        var destBytes = Encoding.Convert(srcEncoding, destEncoding, srcEncoding.GetBytes(inputstring ));
        var destString = destEncoding.GetString(destBytes);

        File.WriteAllBytes(@"c:\tmp\output0.txt", destBytes);

        return destEncoding.ToString();

When I open the output0 file into Windows notepad I can see the italian accent letters right, but if I open Notepad++ the ANSI codepage is Windows-1251 and not Windows-1252.

The original file is an UTF-8 file created with Notepad++ , and Windows is configured with the Italian codepage (1252) correctly.

Claudia Frank · Sep 24, 2017, 1:20 PM

@LuciferSam86

may I ask which npp version (debug-info from ? menu) and windows version you use?
How did you configure Settings->Preferences->New Document->Encoding?

Cheers
Claudia

LuciferSam86 · Sep 27, 2017, 10:20 AM

Hello, here the debug info:
Notepad++ v7.5 (32-bit)
Build time : Aug 15 2017 - 23:02:57
Path : C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe
Admin mode : OFF
Local Conf mode : OFF
OS : Windows 10 (64-bit)
Plugins : mimeTools.dll NppConverter.dll NppExport.dll

The O/S is Windows 10 Professional 64 bit Italian

The encoding of “New Document” is:

UTF-8 and is enabled the sub-option “Apply to opened ANSI files”

Thank you

guy038 · Oct 8, 2017, 10:13 PM

Hi @luciferqam86, @claudia-frank and All,

Is it better if you uncheck the Autodetect character encoding option, in Settings - Preferences… - MISC ?

Sometimes this auto-detection causes some problems, instead of avoiding them :-D

Best Regards,

guy038