Names of character sets
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@Paul-Wormer said in Names of character sets:
@PeterJones said in Names of character sets:
because “unicode” handling was an afterthought about halfway through the Notepad++ lifecycle
Well, the transition from a 1-byte character set to a variable-byte character set seems to my layman’s eye more than an afterthought.
It was a detailed afterthought… but it wasn’t part of the original design of Notepad++ (in the old days, you used to have to download a separate unicode executable vs the standard ANSI executable). And the unicode updates to the character panel do look to me like they were just trying to make something look the same as the WIN-1252/ANSI panel, but mapping those same characters to the UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding.
I don’t know anything about coding of Windows apps, but couldn’t N++ simply interface with charmap.exe?
I don’t think Windows win32-api provides the charmap.exe interface as a widget, unlike the color picker or other such tool. And since you can easily save a run-menu entry and assign a keyboard shortcut to run
charmap.exe, doing fancy stuff to embed it seems a waste of time. -
Thanks for the discussion guys. It really helps me to figure out my problem.
