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For years I've been struggling with displaying Eastern languages in Notepad++ while regular notepad displays them effortlessly. I would really like to finally get to the bottom of this.

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    JuzBeKind
    last edited by JuzBeKind Jul 31, 2018, 11:46 AM Jul 31, 2018, 11:44 AM

    Regular notepad can display Eastern languages using fonts like Arial, Lucia Console and Courier New but Notepad++ cannot.
    In Notepad++ I’m restricted to a small list of less common (and much less desirable) fonts (with exception to Tahoma).
    If I don’t want the backslash character to be replaced by the won character that list becomes even smaller.
    If I want a monospaced font without display glitches that leaves me with pretty much one font: NSimSun, which is a pretty unpleasant font (hard on the eyes & brain, especially at font sizes below 16).
    And it gets worse:
    Sometimes, even NSimSun inexplicably stops displaying Eastern languages properly, even though the global font settings have not been changed and the encoding is still set to UTF-8

    Notepad Version: Many versions since I started using Notepad++ in 2010. Current version is 7.5.7
    OS: Windows XP Pro 32-bit

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      Scott Sumner @JuzBeKind
      last edited by Scott Sumner Jul 31, 2018, 11:50 AM Jul 31, 2018, 11:50 AM

      @JuzBeKind

      These references have some good info on “getting to the bottom of this” (I think…don’t really care as this doesn’t affect me):

      • https://notepad-plus-plus.org/community/topic/15758/some-characters-are-not-displayed-unicode/
      • https://superuser.com/questions/950256/what-font-does-notepad-use-to-display-e-g-hebrew-when-it-claims-to-use-lucida#950793
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