Big encoding problem with UTF-8 / UTF-8-BOM / ANSI / ISO-8859-1

Sybell Lirwaco · Dec 16, 2017, 1:12 PM

notepad++ v7.5.2 (32 bit)
Win 7 Ultima

I use notepad++ with WinSCP and have a huge problem with the encoding.

HTML and PHP files are in HTML5 with <meta charset = “UTF-8”>.

If I save the .htaccess in UFT-8-BOM, then HEAD will show on the command line for HTML and PHP files stored in UTF-8 or UTF-8-BOM: iso-8859-1.

If I save the .htaccess in UTF-8, then HEAD shows no charset on the command line for HTML files and UTF-8 for PHP files. No matter if they are stored in UTF-8 or UTF-8-BOM.

But if I close and reopen the .htaccess in UTF-8, it will open in ANSI !!!

When I create a new file with WinSCP, it opens in ANSI. In the WinSCP settings the default encoding is UTF-8 and notepad++ is set to open a new document in UTF-8-BOM.

Where is the problem here?

dail · Dec 16, 2017, 2:12 PM

This is a known bug in v7.5.2 and v7.5.3 so I’d suggest you stick with v7.5.1 for the time being.

Pull request to fix the issue is here https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/3992

Sybell Lirwaco · Dec 18, 2017, 7:48 AM

Many thanks for your very helpfull hint! It saves my work.

Sybell Lirwaco · Dec 27, 2017, 1:40 PM

Unfortunately the problem with 7.5.1 is not solved.
npp.7.5.1.bin.minimalist.x64 opens files stored in UTF-8 containing characters from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols Unicode block as ANSI.

What I have just seen is that the term “ANSI” means different. Once the term ANSI means Windows-1252 (Menubar -> Encoding) and once means only ISO-8859-1 (Preferences -> New Document -> Encoding). Or there are problems because files stored in Windows-1252 are opened as ANSI, even if “Apply to opened ANSI file” is set.