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    • PeterJonesP
      PeterJones @June Wang
      last edited by

      @June-Wang said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files:

      I can open it using notepad.open(‘F:/06__Other_Models/Transport/round1/convert2/58542_Погрузчик.mtl’). But from python console using above code, notepad++ keeps saying ‘File F:/06__Other_Models/Transport/round1/convert2/58542_Погрузчик.mtl doesn’t exist’, I think it has something to do with the non UTF-8 encoded file(names).

      Actually, \xd0\x9f is the two-byte sequence to represent П in UTF-8. However, it may be that there is an encoding/decoding trick that you need to take in Python to convert the raw UTF-8 bytes read from the file to translate to the valid pathname. I’m not an expert on Python+encoding.

      However, I see one more problem: .mtl\n': because you read the line from a newline-delimited file, you still have a newline in each line. You should really remove the trailing newline sequence before passing it to the notepad.open() command.

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @PeterJones
        last edited by

        Ah, @Ekopalypse showed it working with the name represented with the \x## notation, so that doesn’t appear to be the problem. I then think it’s the newline sequence at the end of your text line, because the real filename doesn’t end in newline.

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        • PeterJonesP
          PeterJones @PeterJones
          last edited by PeterJones

          I confirmed:

          >>> n = 'C:/Users/peter.jones/Downloads/TempData/nppCommunity/\xd0\x9f\xd0\xbe\xd0\xb3\xd1\x80\xd1\x83\xd0\xb7\xd1\x87\xd0\xb8\xd0\xba.mtl'
          >>> notepad.open(n)
          

          opened the file just fine, but

          >>> n = 'C:/Users/peter.jones/Downloads/TempData/nppCommunity/\xd0\x9f\xd0\xbe\xd0\xb3\xd1\x80\xd1\x83\xd0\xb7\xd1\x87\xd0\xb8\xd0\xba.mtl\n'
          >>> notepad.open(n)
          

          shows
          ab58e9fc-7261-40b6-9904-fb867a4e7265-image.png

          Notice the newline between .mtl and the end-quote "

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          • Alan KilbornA
            Alan Kilborn
            last edited by

            @June-Wang said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files:

            notepad.open(i)

            So maybe OP should try:

            notepad.open(i.rstrip())

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            • June WangJ
              June Wang @Alan Kilborn
              last edited by

              @Alan-Kilborn said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files:

              notepad.open(i.rstrip())

              That worked ! Thank you all so much! @Ekopalypse @PeterJones

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              • June WangJ
                June Wang
                last edited by

                @PeterJones @Ekopalypse @Alan-Kilborn
                Btw, anyone knows how to tell if a file selects ANSI or Character sets ? Right now if a file that has Character sets selected, and a file that has ANSI selected will both return true on the following commands.

                notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", 'Character sets')
                notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", 'ANSI')
                
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                • EkopalypseE
                  Ekopalypse
                  last edited by Ekopalypse

                  @June-Wang

                  These commands are used to call menu items and just return true if a menu item was found.
                  Do you want to find out which encoding has been assigned by notepad++?

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                  • Alan KilbornA
                    Alan Kilborn @Ekopalypse
                    last edited by

                    @Ekopalypse said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files:

                    Do you want to find out which encoding has been assigned by notepad++?

                    Is this one going to end HERE?

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                    • EkopalypseE
                      Ekopalypse
                      last edited by

                      @Alan-Kilborn

                      Eventually, we could find a solution to read the value from the status bar if that is really what is being looked for, but it must be clear that this is just an estimate from Npp and in the worst case it is just wrong.

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                      • June WangJ
                        June Wang @Ekopalypse
                        last edited by

                        @Ekopalypse said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files:

                        @June-Wang
                        Do you want to find out which encoding has been assigned by notepad++?

                        Kind of, I don’t know much about encoding methods. Just trying to check if Encoding->Character sets selected in a file, continue; if NTF-8 selected, close; else, convert to NTF-8, save N close. I just read the other thread mentioned above, and put together this code.

                        if notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Character sets") and notepad.getEncoding() =='Npp.BUFFERENCODING.COOKIE':
                              continue
                        elseif notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "NTF-8"):
                           notepad.close()
                        else:
                           notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8")
                           notepad.save()
                           notepad.close()
                        

                        Thought it should work. However, for a file that has Character sets selected, when I do notepad.getEncoding() from console, it returns Npp.BUFFERENCODING.COOKIE. But when I do a compare notepad.getEncoding() ==‘Npp.BUFFERENCODING.COOKIE’, it returns false.

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                        • EkopalypseE
                          Ekopalypse @June Wang
                          last edited by Ekopalypse

                          @June-Wang

                          I guess this one should do what you are looking for.
                          As for ANSI and CharacterSet, they are basically the same thing, they are the 8bit encoding.
                          ANSI is what the system is currently configured with and CharacterSet can be used if you want to display a different 8bit encoding.
                          For example, if you have a German setup, ANSI is equal to Windows-1252,
                          but if you get a Russian text, you may need to select Windows-1251 to see the Cyrillic symbols.

                          import ctypes
                          
                          from ctypes.wintypes import HWND, UINT, LPARAM, WPARAM, LPCWSTR
                          
                          user32 = ctypes.WinDLL('user32')
                          
                          LRESULT = LPARAM
                          SendMessage = user32.SendMessageW
                          SendMessage.argtypes = [HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM]
                          SendMessage.restype  = LRESULT
                          
                          FindWindow = user32.FindWindowW
                          FindWindow.argtypes = [LPCWSTR, LPCWSTR]
                          FindWindow.restype  = HWND
                          
                          FindWindowEx = user32.FindWindowExW
                          FindWindowEx.restype = HWND
                          FindWindowEx.argtypes = [HWND, HWND, LPCWSTR, LPCWSTR]
                          
                          WM_USER             = 1024
                          SB_GETTEXTW         = WM_USER+13
                          SB_GETTEXTLENGTHW   = WM_USER+12
                          
                          
                          def get_assumed_encoding(statusbar_hwnd):
                              buffer_length = user32.SendMessageW(statusbar_hwnd, SB_GETTEXTLENGTHW, 4, 0)
                              buffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(buffer_length+1)
                              user32.SendMessageW(statusbar_hwnd, SB_GETTEXTW, 4, ctypes.addressof(buffer))
                              return buffer.value
                          
                          def main():
                              npp_hwnd = FindWindow(u'Notepad++', None)
                              statusbar_hwnd = FindWindowEx(npp_hwnd, None, u"msctls_statusbar32", None)
                          
                              # for each file in ... do
                              encoding = get_assumed_encoding(statusbar_hwnd)
                              if encoding == 'UTF-8':
                                  notepad.close()
                              elif encoding in ['UTF-8-BOM', 'UCS-2 BE BOM', 'UCS-2 LE BOM']:
                                  # what to do here??
                                  pass
                              else: # ANSI and Character set
                                  notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8")
                                  notepad.save()
                                  notepad.close()
                                  
                          main()
                          

                          UPDATE: A word of warning, Npp can only ACCEPT the coding, it has no chance to be 100 sure this is the correct one.

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                          • EkopalypseE
                            Ekopalypse
                            last edited by Ekopalypse

                            this
                            UPDATE: A word of warning, Npp can only ACCEPT the coding, it has no chance to be 100 sure this is the correct one.
                            should be
                            UPDATE: A word of warning, Npp can only ASSUME the encoding, it has no chance to be 100 sure this is the correct one.

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                            • June WangJ
                              June Wang @Ekopalypse
                              last edited by June Wang

                              @Ekopalypse said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files:

                              As for ANSI and CharacterSet, they are basically the same thing, they are the 8bit encoding.

                              else: # ANSI and Character set
                                  notepad.runMenuCommand("Encoding", "Convert to UTF-8")
                                  notepad.save()
                                  notepad.close()
                              

                              Thank you. So there’s no way to tell if a file is Character sets selected or not? But notepad.getEncoding() outputs differently tho.
                              On Character sets selected file, it outputs

                              Npp.BUFFERENCODING.COOKIE
                              

                              On ANSI selected file, it outputs

                              Npp.BUFFERENCODING.ENC8BIT
                              
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                              • EkopalypseE
                                Ekopalypse @June Wang
                                last edited by Ekopalypse

                                @June-Wang

                                If you use the code I posted, you can distinguish between
                                ANSI and CharacterSet by checking for ANSI, with another elif branch

                                elif encoding == 'ANSI'
                                ...
                                

                                But why would you want to do that??

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                                • June WangJ
                                  June Wang
                                  last edited by

                                  @Ekopalypse
                                  Nice, that worked!
                                  The software I used to output my current data is unable to output unicode data when it comes to foreign language, sometimes it’s ANSI in Npp++, sometimes it’s Character sets selected, but, i.e. Хромм_слабe turns out to be 孚把抉技技_扼抖忘忌e . Now I need to import those data to another software, but it only accepts UTF-8 encoded. So I have to convert ANSI to UTF-8, and manually fix the ones that have Character sets selected, otherwise they show up as boxes. Not fun :(

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                                  • PeterJonesP
                                    PeterJones @June Wang
                                    last edited by

                                    @June-Wang said in Python script plugin console to open multiple files:

                                    The software I used to output my current data is unable to output unicode data

                                    Unicode was invented in 1991 ↗, and UTF-8 encoding was invented in 1992 ↗. Software developers have had 30 years to adapt. And most software I’ve seen from the last decade or so knows how to use UTF-8. Any software still under active development should have figured out UTF-8 by now; if they haven’t, and if you (or a company you work for) are a paying customer, I would start making frequent requests to find out what their schedule for upgrading from pre-1990’s technology is.

                                    That said, I’m glad that Notepad++ (plus plugins) is able to help you overcome this extreme deficiency in output ability of this other software. Good luck.

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                                      June Wang @PeterJones
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