<![CDATA[selection length issue with char §]]>i wonder, why when selecting text (like “1111§§§§2222”) within notpad++ says “Sel: 8” instead of “Sel: 12”.
the § char is not counted … this is irritating. replacing § with any other char the selection length is correct.

placing the cursor at the end of text then np++ (correctly) is displaying “Col: 13” for all used chars.

any idea?

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15600/selection-length-issue-with-charRSS for NodeWed, 22 Apr 2026 08:31:19 GMTThu, 12 Apr 2018 06:37:35 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to selection length issue with char § on Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:37:03 GMT]]>Hello @smth76 and All,

Yeah, in an ANSI encoded file, any character, with Unicode value, between \x80 to \xBF, is NOT taken in account :-(( It’s a very old bug. In an encoded ANSI file, you can search these characters with the regex [\x80-\xbF]

On my laptop, as I’m French, the NON Unicode encoding used, in ANSI, is the Windows-1252 encoding

Luckily, nowadays, it’s better to use any Unicode encoding, that is to say, any other encoding but ANSI ;-)) In that case, the selection of all these characters do give the expected result : 64 characters selected

In an Unicode encoded file, these characters may be found with, either, the regexes :

  • [\x80-\xbF]

  • [\x{80}-\x{bF}]

  • [\x{0080}-\x{00bF}]

Best Regards,

guy038

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/31741https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/31741Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:37:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to selection length issue with char § on Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:59:03 GMT]]>little update: it’s only happening on ANSI, when doing this on UTF-8 it’s all fine …

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/31724https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/31724Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:59:03 GMT