<![CDATA[Hidden character "&"]]>Hello,
On my Windows 7 32bit computer, in “Visual Basic file” language (and only under this language), the character “&” is masked… When I want type, for example:
variable = (var1 & “hello” & var2), Notepad++ dislpay: variable = (var1 “hello” var2)…
as if all the “&” arent replaced by a space.
Have you a solution ?
Thanks
Sébastien

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/9701/hidden-characterRSS for NodeSun, 06 Sep 2026 14:44:05 GMTThu, 27 Aug 2015 15:26:17 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Hidden character "&" on Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:37:17 GMT]]>Reference: issue #729

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/10492https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/10492Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:37:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hidden character "&" on Fri, 28 Aug 2015 23:18:39 GMT]]>The fault is in the “Source Code Pro” font installed on my PC, the bold font doesn’t display the “&” character
but the normal font does.

I fixed this by replacing the font.

Joanne

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/10423https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/10423Fri, 28 Aug 2015 23:18:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hidden character "&" on Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:08:39 GMT]]>I have a temporary fix which works for me.

I went into the Style Configurator and for Java -> OPERATOR , I unticked the ‘Bold’ box and
my “&” re-appeared

I suspect the underlying problem is with the Source Code Pro font

Joanne

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/10420https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/10420Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:08:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Hidden character "&" on Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:48:53 GMT]]>I also have this problem, the “&” characters are in the text but are rendered as white space when using
some of the Language settings.

Languages which correctly display the “&” character include:-
Batch, Diff, HTML, JSP, Makefile, Normal Text, PHP

Languages which DO NOT correctly display the “&” character include:-
Assembly, C, C++, Java, Javascript, Python

This is really annoying!

Joanne

(Notepad++ version 6.8.2 on Windows 10 Pro x64)

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/10419https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/10419Fri, 28 Aug 2015 16:48:53 GMT