Re: Change Notepad default from ANSI to Unicode?

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From: Stephen Harris (Stephen_P_Harris_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 20:41:41 -0700

"Lee C." <ChestnutLee[No Spam]@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying to get the Notepad to save by default in Unicode rather than
ANSI. I use a font that has characters that don't work with ANSI, and I've
remapped the keyboard to add several more characters that I use often
enough, and they don't translate into ANSI either. I can do it manually,
but I have to do it every time I save something anew in the Notepad.

Is there a registry setting I can change to get the Notepad to save to
Unicode by default? And what might that be?

You could try Orient which saves as by default in Unicode.
http://jacob.saportas.free.fr/Download.html

There is probably a way to change Orient to be the default text editor,
I've seen it done with other new and improved text editors. Maybe
something like rename notepad.exe to notepad.bak and then rename
Orient.exe to notepad.exe and move its files to the C:\Windows folder.

Orient saves to Unicode by default and Ansi is a choice in the dropdown
menu.
The reverse of Notepad. Also I think the author of Orient would likely know
if the default save as behavior of Notepad can be changed fairly easily and
how to do it. Orient does a 12/55-56 --> conversion to unicode if it
matters.

Regards,
Stephen

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