Suggestion for PN - Special Characters

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Suggestion for PN - Special Characters

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Started 3 years ago by RaphaelDDL
Latest reply from horus

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RaphaelDDL
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Greetings Simon and everyone!

First, i would like to say that i love Programmer's Notepad over every other text editor. I love it, that's for sure. Simple yet powerful, nice customization options and language support. Making my PHP scripts was never so easy.

Well, the suggestion i propose is add a 'converter' for special character. So, when i write something like �, � or � and other characters like that, PN automatic (or after push a button) convert them to &ati lde;, &ea cute; or &cce dil;. (i added a space in the middle of code 'cause browser is converting them.)

Currently i'm losing a consider amount of time opening DW just for that - since my current computer is not good, it takes lot of time to open.
I write all my text in PN, open Dreamweaver, throw text in and get the source-code of text and paste back in PN. Or when the texts are small, i write manually all those codes...

And that is my suggestion. That is the only thing i miss at PN. And i dont think might be so hard to implement. (Ok, i don't know anything about programming c+, VB and etc so i might be wrong)
For example, things with ~ are written &{the letter}tilde; (� = &nt ilde; / � = &Ati lde; / etc) so its just make a 'Special Character searcher' lol
(again i added a space in the middle of code 'cause browser is converting them.)

Thanks

Regards,
Raphael DDL

Posted 3 years ago #
Nux
Member

Why do you convert those characters? Just use UTF-8 whenever possible. If you can't use UTF-8 you can use this converter:
http://nux.w.of.pl/smp/_tnt/unicode-en.htm
Simply paste your code in the left text area and you'll get the output in the right one.

Posted 3 years ago #
RaphaelDDL
Member

Hmm.. Well, i use charset=iso-8859-1.. In fact, i never understood those charset numbers at all. But i've tried use utf-8 and kinda made gibberish text, like this: ol?, voc?s est? na r?dio

Thats why i always convert. Anyways, omg! Cool converter you got :D

I'll sure use it. Can i have a copy of it? No worries, i'll give you full credit (if you want to add a Copyright notice or something at footer).
(these days we never know when a website goes down.. but normally is always when we need :D)

Thanks

Posted 3 years ago #
Nux
Member

Sure, you can use it under the terms of GPL. I've added the copyright note to be clear ;).

BTW you would have to convert files to UTF-8 before you can use this encoding. You can do it with PN - it was even described somewhere on this forum.

Posted 3 years ago #
Eidetic
Member

Raphael,

I've run into the same problem with other notepads but actually PN works. What you have to do to write on the fly is go to the Windows control panel and set up your keyboard for the language that you write in. You can then switch between keyboards by pressing alt-shift. Afterwards, go to PN's Tools | Options | General | Defaults and seleect UTF-8 under the "Code Page:" section and then you can select your character set.

You might have to change the base font scheme to something that allows unicode. The default Lucida Console font, for example, won't even correctly display the null (capital letter with a stroke).

Once you get those set up, you can easily hit alt-shift, hit the character via keyboard without the hassle of copying and pasting or scrolling to find the characters you need.

I use it for switching between American English and Romanian.

Posted 3 years ago #
horus
Member

In order to make UTF-8 text display correctly on browser, a good practice is to also add a META tag to your HTML source code, like this:

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
....
<title>....</title>
</head>

And of course, don't forget to save your text file in UTF-8 encoding as pointed out by others.

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