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    • English Crusader
      English Crusader last edited by

      I have an issue with special characters that i can’t find a way to fix

      Examples:

      Normal Text - https://i.imgur.com/upKBAsa.png

      Pasted Text - https://i.imgur.com/pjiujWJ.png

      I’ve tried changing the encoding and even messed with the style configurator to no avail.

      Apologies in advance for anything i do or may have done wrong, I’m new to this site and this problem is the only reason i’ve come here.

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      • Meta Chuh
        Meta Chuh @English Crusader last edited by Meta Chuh

        welcome to the notepad++ community, @English-Crusader

        the most widely used file format for those characters is utf-8.
        if you are on notepad++ versions 7.6 to 7.6.4, there was a bug concerning the automatic character encoding function, so if you reload such an utf-8 file, it will be interpreted as something else, messing up the characters.

        if this is the case, it is recommended, that you update to notepad++ 7.6.6 using ? > update notepad++.

        on versions 7.6 to 7.6.4, or if you want to select your character encoding yourself, you have to go to settings > preferences > misc and disable autodetect character encoding, as seen at the screenshot below.
        settings - auto detect character encoding

        then go to settings > preferences > new document and set your default encoding to utf-8 and activate apply to opened ansi files.
        Imgur.

        note: if you copy/paste from a source like a browser, the special chars should appear correctly, but if you copy paste from an application, which uses a different character encoding, you will have to paste it into a new tab and switch through the different encodings, to figure out which ones they use.
        once you have done that, you can select encoding > convert to utf-8 before saving, or copy/paste the correctly displayed text from this scrap tab to your real file.

        best regards.

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        • English Crusader
          English Crusader @Meta Chuh last edited by

          @Meta-Chuh Thank you for the answer, Unfortunately the updating solution has proved to be ineffective. And i had already used your other reccomendations in a previous attempt to fix the issue.

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          • English Crusader
            English Crusader last edited by

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