How to set "UTF-8 WITH BOM" as default Encoding even for old but changed textfiles?
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As I found out I can change the default encoding for new text documents in
Preferences—New Document—Encoding
by enabling “UTF-8 with BOM”
Unfortunately this works only for new, really new documents.
When I load an existing old file (with UTF-8 only), then change something and save it, the old encoding remains.
How can I tell NP++ to apply the new default encoding to changed old files too?
If possible an additional option for this should be added to the next release.
Thank you
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@Claudia-Svenson said:
How can I tell NP++ to apply the new default encoding to changed old files too?
I don’t believe this is possible.
If possible an additional option for this should be added to the next release.
This is IMO a dubious need.
For your use, perhaps a script that does an encoding conversion upon save would be beneficial?
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@Claudia-Svenson said in How to set "UTF-8 WITH BOM" as default Encoding even for old but changed textfiles?:
When I load an existing old file (with UTF-8 only), then change something and save it, the old encoding remains.
How can I tell NP++ to apply the new default encoding to changed old files too?
I think you mean you want this to be automatic; but just in case you missed it, you can change the encoding of the file while you are editing it using Encoding | Convert to UTF-8-BOM. You just have to think to do it for every file you want to change.
