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Signed-off-by: Don HO <don.h@free.fr> git-svn-id: svn://svn.tuxfamily.org/svnroot/notepadplus/repository/trunk@504 f5eea248-9336-0410-98b8-ebc06183d4e3
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41 lines
2.2 KiB
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>Encoding</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css">
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>Encoding</h1>
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<p>
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Text
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can be encoded in multiple ways. Most (older) textfiles use an
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encoding named ANSI, which has room for a limited amount of different
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characters, but is often sufficient to display all the text. However,
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Unicode encodings allow for a much richer amount of characters,
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allowing a single file to contain many languages at once, at the cost
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of an increase in filesize. Notepad++ will automatically try to
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detect the encoding used when opening a file, but allows you to
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change it when editing it. To simply change the displayed encoding
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(without modifying the actual text), select one of the <span class="menu_item">Format->Encode in</span>
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options from the Format menu. The convert the text to a certain
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encoding, select one of the <span class="menu_item">Format->Convert to</span> options in the format menu.<p>
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It
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can happen that a file is saved with a certain encoding, but upon
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reopening it in Notepad++ it is detected with another encoding. This
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is a technical limitation and happens because sometimes the resulting
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file will not differ even though different encodings are used. This
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is most noticeable if the file is saved without a special BOM (Byte
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Order Mark) indicating the used encoding.<p>Notepad++ offers the following encoding schemes:
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<dl>
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<dt>ANSI
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<dd> Older encoding, smallest filesize but error prone due to use of various codepages
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<dt>UTF-8
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<dd> Unicode encoding, most Western character take one byte of filesize,
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but other character can take up more, 3 to 4 most commonly. A three
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byte BOM will be added upon save.
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<dt>UTF-8 without BOM
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<dd> Like UTF-8, but no BOM is added. Saves three bytes, but makes encoding detection harder.
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<dt>UTF-16 Little Endian
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<dd> All characters are two bytes in size, pairs are Little Endian ordered. A 4 byte BOM is added upon save.
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<dt>UTF-16 Big Endian
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<dd> All characters are two bytes in size, pairs are Big Endian ordered. A 4 byte BOM is added upon save.
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</dl>
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</body></html> |