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    • June WangJ
      June Wang @Alan Kilborn
      last edited by

      @Alan-Kilborn said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files:

      notepad.open(i.rstrip())

      That worked ! Thank you all so much! @Ekopalypse @PeterJones

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      • June WangJ
        June Wang
        last edited by

        @PeterJones @Ekopalypse @Alan-Kilborn
        Btw, anyone knows how to tell if a file selects ANSI or Character sets ? Right now if a file that has Character sets selected, and a file that has ANSI selected will both return true on the following commands.

        notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", 'Character sets')
        notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", 'ANSI')
        
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        • EkopalypseE
          Ekopalypse
          last edited by Ekopalypse

          @June-Wang

          These commands are used to call menu items and just return true if a menu item was found.
          Do you want to find out which encoding has been assigned by notepad++?

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          • Alan KilbornA
            Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
            last edited by

            @Ekopalypse said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files:

            Do you want to find out which encoding has been assigned by notepad++?

            Is this one going to end HERE?

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            • EkopalypseE
              Ekopalypse
              last edited by

              @Alan-Kilborn

              Eventually, we could find a solution to read the value from the status bar if that is really what is being looked for, but it must be clear that this is just an estimate from Npp and in the worst case it is just wrong.

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              • June WangJ
                June Wang @Ekopalypse
                last edited by

                @Ekopalypse said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files:

                @June-Wang
                Do you want to find out which encoding has been assigned by notepad++?

                Kind of, I don’t know much about encoding methods. Just trying to check if Encoding->Character sets selected in a file, continue; if NTF-8 selected, close; else, convert to NTF-8, save N close. I just read the other thread mentioned above, and put together this code.

                if notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Character sets") and notepad.getEncoding() =='Npp.BUFFERENCODING.COOKIE':
                      continue
                elseif notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "NTF-8"):
                   notepad.close()
                else:
                   notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8")
                   notepad.save()
                   notepad.close()
                

                Thought it should work. However, for a file that has Character sets selected, when I do notepad.getEncoding() from console, it returns Npp.BUFFERENCODING.COOKIE. But when I do a compare notepad.getEncoding() ==‘Npp.BUFFERENCODING.COOKIE’, it returns false.

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                • EkopalypseE
                  Ekopalypse @June Wang
                  last edited by Ekopalypse

                  @June-Wang

                  I guess this one should do what you are looking for.
                  As for ANSI and CharacterSet, they are basically the same thing, they are the 8bit encoding.
                  ANSI is what the system is currently configured with and CharacterSet can be used if you want to display a different 8bit encoding.
                  For example, if you have a German setup, ANSI is equal to Windows-1252,
                  but if you get a Russian text, you may need to select Windows-1251 to see the Cyrillic symbols.

                  import ctypes
                  
                  from ctypes.wintypes import HWND, UINT, LPARAM, WPARAM, LPCWSTR
                  
                  user32 = ctypes.WinDLL('user32')
                  
                  LRESULT = LPARAM
                  SendMessage = user32.SendMessageW
                  SendMessage.argtypes = [HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM]
                  SendMessage.restype  = LRESULT
                  
                  FindWindow = user32.FindWindowW
                  FindWindow.argtypes = [LPCWSTR, LPCWSTR]
                  FindWindow.restype  = HWND
                  
                  FindWindowEx = user32.FindWindowExW
                  FindWindowEx.restype = HWND
                  FindWindowEx.argtypes = [HWND, HWND, LPCWSTR, LPCWSTR]
                  
                  WM_USER             = 1024
                  SB_GETTEXTW         = WM_USER+13
                  SB_GETTEXTLENGTHW   = WM_USER+12
                  
                  
                  def get_assumed_encoding(statusbar_hwnd):
                      buffer_length = user32.SendMessageW(statusbar_hwnd, SB_GETTEXTLENGTHW, 4, 0)
                      buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(buffer_length+1)
                      user32.SendMessageW(statusbar_hwnd, SB_GETTEXTW, 4, ctypes.addressof(buffer))
                      return buffer.value
                  
                  def main():
                      npp_hwnd = FindWindow(u'Notepad++', None)
                      statusbar_hwnd = FindWindowEx(npp_hwnd, None, u"msctls_statusbar32", None)
                  
                      # for each file in ... do
                      encoding = get_assumed_encoding(statusbar_hwnd)
                      if encoding == 'UTF-8':
                          notepad.close()
                      elif encoding in ['UTF-8-BOM', 'UCS-2 BE BOM', 'UCS-2 LE BOM']:
                          # what to do here??
                          pass
                      else: # ANSI and Character set
                          notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8")
                          notepad.save()
                          notepad.close()
                          
                  main()
                  

                  UPDATE: A word of warning, Npp can only ACCEPT the coding, it has no chance to be 100 sure this is the correct one.

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                  • EkopalypseE
                    Ekopalypse
                    last edited by Ekopalypse

                    this
                    UPDATE: A word of warning, Npp can only ACCEPT the coding, it has no chance to be 100 sure this is the correct one.
                    should be
                    UPDATE: A word of warning, Npp can only ASSUME the encoding, it has no chance to be 100 sure this is the correct one.

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                    • June WangJ
                      June Wang @Ekopalypse
                      last edited by June Wang

                      @Ekopalypse said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files:

                      As for ANSI and CharacterSet, they are basically the same thing, they are the 8bit encoding.

                      else: # ANSI and Character set
                          notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8")
                          notepad.save()
                          notepad.close()
                      

                      Thank you. So there’s no way to tell if a file is Character sets selected or not? But notepad.getEncoding() outputs differently tho.
                      On Character sets selected file, it outputs

                      Npp.BUFFERENCODING.COOKIE
                      

                      On ANSI selected file, it outputs

                      Npp.BUFFERENCODING.ENC8BIT
                      
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                      • EkopalypseE
                        Ekopalypse @June Wang
                        last edited by Ekopalypse

                        @June-Wang

                        If you use the code I posted, you can distinguish between
                        ANSI and CharacterSet by checking for ANSI, with another elif branch

                        elif encoding == 'ANSI'
                        ...
                        

                        But why would you want to do that??

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                        • June WangJ
                          June Wang
                          last edited by

                          @Ekopalypse
                          Nice, that worked!
                          The software I used to output my current data is unable to output unicode data when it comes to foreign language, sometimes it’s ANSI in Npp++, sometimes it’s Character sets selected, but, i.e. Хромм_слабe turns out to be 孚把抉技技_扼抖忘忌e . Now I need to import those data to another software, but it only accepts UTF-8 encoded. So I have to convert ANSI to UTF-8, and manually fix the ones that have Character sets selected, otherwise they show up as boxes. Not fun :(

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                          • PeterJonesP
                            PeterJones @June Wang
                            last edited by

                            @June-Wang said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files:

                            The software I used to output my current data is unable to output unicode data

                            Unicode was invented in 1991 ↗, and UTF-8 encoding was invented in 1992 ↗. Software developers have had 30 years to adapt. And most software I’ve seen from the last decade or so knows how to use UTF-8. Any software still under active development should have figured out UTF-8 by now; if they haven’t, and if you (or a company you work for) are a paying customer, I would start making frequent requests to find out what their schedule for upgrading from pre-1990’s technology is.

                            That said, I’m glad that Notepad++ (plus plugins) is able to help you overcome this extreme deficiency in output ability of this other software. Good luck.

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                              June Wang @PeterJones
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