How can I organize encodings displayed in menu?
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I extensively use encodings not displayed in the top level of the Encoding menu. I can access them through submenus, which is unnecessarily awkward. Is there a way (other than recompiling) to edit the Encoding menu and display encodings I choose?
I would settle with for example adding them to context menu via the xml, but encoding “command ids” are even not in the file https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/blob/master/PowerEditor/installer/nativeLang/english.xml. Is there a reasonably simple way to quickly access certain encodings?
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maybe by assigning a shortcut to the ones most often used?
Settings->Shortcut Mapper->MainMenu …
Cheers
Claudia
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@Claudia-Frank A good suggestion, although I do not use keyboard shortcuts much. Names of encodings are even in the shortcut mapper. I do not understand the way the program changes encodings though. I have read http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/Convert_Or_Encode%3F, but the behavior seems quite chaotic.
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I’ve read it now two times and have to agree, it isn’t very descriptive.
I would treat it like this,everything under Character sets is for viewing only means,
if you open a file it doesn’t show all characters correctly is might be that
you need to use a different charset to make it work (presuming that there isn’t
a font issue).If you want to change the encoding from ANSI to one of the unicode
types or vice versa than use either convert… or encode…Concerning the reordering of encodings I don’t see how this could be achieved
other than recompiling the source.Cheers
Claudia
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I thought the same (viewing only), but then there are the exceptions mentioned on the page, that the underlying file is changed under some circumstances.
I would actually prefer a command that changes only displayed characters only if they cannot be displayed in the new encoding (and marks the file for subsequent saves in a certain way, and marks the file changed), no immediate saving would be needed. And the Convert command would not be needed then (as I could just save the file). And while I am at it, ANSI is not an encoding name - I assume it means system codepage, which can be different from computer to computer.
I will have a look at the github project and consider asking there.
