Notepad file encoding problem

Okay, so this file can be interpreted in four different ways. Michael Kaplan has some thoughts on this subject. If so, then you are right where Notepad is today. Notice that all four interpretations are linguistically plausible. For example,. Maybe you consider that an acceptable loss. The point is that no matter how you decide to resolve the ambiguity, somebody will win and somebody else will lose.

Comments are closed. I run this new webapplication in visual studio No I recive this settings:. According to your description, have you tried to set the encoding type directly? I suggest that you could add configuration in web. Thanx, but i dont think this is the solution. When i go to, Save as But i must remember to change this everytime i save the file. Do you have the same problem on the same file once you have done this? I wonder if VS just doesn't default to the encoding that is used for the current file you are trying to save.

Knowiing which VS version you are using could help in case someone would know if it could be globally overriden but it seems to make sense to not change the encoding automatically at least for existing files.

You could try also to create a new cshtml file to see then which encoding is used by default on your side. Edit: I gave this a try and it seems to work this way. I saved the file using Notepad to change the encoding and if I change it back with VS it seems to be kept from now but likely just for this file. For now I believe the real issue is why those files were created or saved at some point without the utf8 signature. If i close the file in the project and open it again, and go to, Save as, the Unicode UTF-8 without signature - Codepage is selected.

If i close the file and open it again, then Unicode UTF-8 without signature - Codepage is selected as default. I have the same problem in both VS 17 Same code page here but VS 17 uses "uft-8 with signature" and it is always left unchanged as far as I know I gave a quick look but don't see for now where it could be changed.

I reset the settings, created a new file, and the new file has Unicode UTF-8 with signature - Codepage selected. Good luck ;-. So the problem must be in Visual Studio someware? You really tried to launch VS from the command line so that no addins at all are loaded? As far as I can see VS always handled this fine here. Please try. For now it seems there is an addons that is changing that or that some VS settings were altered at some point. If you can try a fresh VS install on anotrher machine and you should see it works fine.

In our project we solved same problem. Issue was in. In an ideal world, at least. Kept getting error message about having data in the XML head. Of course: the BOM. And NetBeans 5. Gotta get up in 4 hours. At least I solved the problem. Just ignore this. I wish Notepad has this option and not only during open.

I do not. If I choose any Notepad option the result will be garbage. Why does Notepad call an API that has such a heavy bias towards guessing a usually wrong encoding? There are a great many corner cases that are simplified by this assertion.

Most web browsers and similar tools convert to their internal Unicode representation usually UTF-8 or native endian UTF during or soon after downloading. Dean, what a completely false statement! None of the IsTextUnicode UTF statistical likeness detection is used because that would give notepad a behavior that could be deemed inconsistent.

I wonder if it is being removed in Vista. I am amazed that notepad would make such a blunder to use IsTextUnicode for UTF auto-detection because it is so obviously unreliable I would never have imagined the notepad team could be so dumb. Why would they do this?!! Thanks for responding to say re-read.

I guess you were referring to this auto-detection where you said "looks like valid UTF-8". Is that a bug or a feature? But as a nice bonus: the Visual Studio editor does. And it also saves the file according to the meta. OldNewThing, with all due respect, I think you need to thicken your skin a bit.

You are a public figure now. A few days ago, Raymond was talking about the Notepad file encoding problem , again.

And the comments. My apologies if your questions were rhetorical, but if they were not … yes somehow being senior in MS, and writing a book, your "inside knowledge" and sharing level, and "tight ship" blog has made you more than a casual blogger.

Nobody wants to be a public figure for long. It should not be, but what we want and reality are two different things. Feel free to ignore this, and if I am wrong or irrelevant then no loss.

These have no BOM; they just dive right in with bytes of text. They are also probably the most common type of text file. These usually begin with a BOM but not always. For example, consider this file: D0 AE Depending on which encoding you assume, you get very different results.

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