Notepad and ê

[yawnmoth]

I want to save a *.txt file with ê in it, however, I absolutely do
not want the document saved in UTF-8 and I do not want a byte-order-
mark prepended to the document. Unfortunately, it'd appear that this
is quite impossible.

I create a document with ê in it, set the Encoding to ASCII (which,
at this point, is the default encoding) and save it. I close Notepad
and open it and... it's not ê - it's ê. I replace ê with ê and try
to do Save As, again. Now, the encoding is defaulting to UTF-8. I
change it to ASCII and try to save it, again, and then I reopen it.
Same thing. Instead of seeing ê, I'm seeing ê.

I like Notepad because it's a lightweight text editor that's installed
by default on every Windows computer. Am I going to have to start
installing a third party text editor because Notepad doesn't correctly
handle character encodings?

[Ronaldo]

Windows Notepad should save your characters with no problem,.. I tried every
format in the save as list, and my file kept the ê characters just the
same, maybe something else is causing the problem...

Maybe one of these alternatives can help

Try wordpad as an alternative text editor. This application is replaced when
you install Microsoft Word, but you can still use it for RTF, TXT or Text
Unicode formats. Look for Wordpad.exe in: C:\Program files\Windows
NT\Accesories\Wordpad.exe

Or install Notepad++, it's lightweight and much better than the Windows
Notepad
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/

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[Curt Christianson]

EditPad Lite is an extremely versatile text editor, and should also do what
you want to do. It is free, and can be downloaded here:

http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

Be sure you select the "Lite" version, as the "Pro" version is *not* free.

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HTH,

Curt

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"yawnmoth" <terr...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I want to save a *.txt file with ĂŞ in it, however, I absolutely do

not want the document saved in UTF-8 and I do not want a byte-order-
mark prepended to the document. Unfortunately, it'd appear that this
is quite impossible.

I create a document with ĂŞ in it, set the Encoding to ASCII (which,

at this point, is the default encoding) and save it. I close Notepad

and open it and... it's not ĂŞ - it's ę. I replace ę with ĂŞ and try

to do Save As, again. Now, the encoding is defaulting to UTF-8. I
change it to ASCII and try to save it, again, and then I reopen it.

Same thing. Instead of seeing ĂŞ, I'm seeing ę.