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    How to convert a textfile and really show german umlaute?

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    • Ben S.
      Ben S. last edited by

      I have a textfile which contains mostly text. Among the characters are some german Umlaute (äöü).

      When I inspect these umlaute characters in hexadecimal they are represented for example by

      xF6 = “ö”

      or

      xFC = “ü”

      When I load now this file into NP++ these umlaute chars are NOT shown correctly. Instead some exotic chars are shown.

      NP++ seems to interpret the content (as shown in the lower right corner of the status bar) as encoded “Windows (CR LF) ISO8859-5”

      I tried a lot of NP++ converts from “Encoding” menu to let NP++ show the correct umlaute but without success.

      How can I tell NP++ to convert/show umlaute correctly?

      As an additional hint: The file contains some two-byte control chars xDE xE1

      Maybe this has a negative impact on the correct identification.

      Ben

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      • Claudia Frank
        Claudia Frank @Ben S. last edited by

        @Ben-S.

        How can I tell NP++ to convert/show umlaute correctly?

        What if you select Encoding->Character Set->Western European->Windows-1252?

        As an additional hint: The file contains some two-byte control chars xDE xE1
        Maybe this has a negative impact on the correct identification.

        Could be, hard to tell without having the file. Can you make a copy of that file and delete these
        control chars, save it and reopen it? Does this solve the issue?

        Cheers
        Claudia

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        • Ben S.
          Ben S. last edited by

          It works.
          Thank you

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