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    • Peter SsteinerP
      Peter Ssteiner
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      Assume I have a text file which contains (beginning at line 23) german Umlaute like
      hexadecimal xC3 xB6 for “ö”

      When I load this text file into NP++ then at this character position always crap chars are shown an NOT the Umlaute. At the left side of Status bar “ANSI” is shown.

      However when I delete some lines at the top, then save and reload the file into NP++ then the Umlaute are displayed correctly.

      The Status bar shows now UTF-8 w/o BOM.

      So my guess is that NP++ investigates only the first e.g.200 bytes to find out if the text is ANSI or UTF-8 w/o BOM.

      Can someone confirm this?

      Is there a way to increase this number (or even to tell NP+ to check the WHOLE text file before deciding what encoding is should be)?

      Peter

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