Skype Messenging Question

Use notepad.exe as editor. Copying from wordprocessors like WORD, WP, etc is often 16 bit text, and that is responsible for the mishmash.

UNICODE and code page issues?

Jamie.

I'm using UltraEdit. ...Jim Thompson

Try and change the font type to the same one in each program. I cant check for you, I dont use skype and ultraedit. Also do a small test in notepad. My notepad uses "fixedsys" "regular"

Notepad works, so I'll check out what UltraEdit is doing... I generally default to "Courier New".

Sjouke, Thanks for the pointers! ...Jim Thompson

Y'r welcome.

This is not related to the font, but the character encoding (

Where did the file come from originally- perhaps it was created as Unicode? This may help:

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Thanks, Frank! UltraEdit has many more bells and whistles than I've learned to use... I just used it to edit a 77,000 line IBIS model... really nice find-and-replace features! ...Jim Thompson

Thanks, Spehro. I just read Frank Buss' message saying the same thing. Haven't tried it yet, but it certainly makes sense. ...Jim Thompson

That worked. Thanks, Frank! ...Jim Thompson

Yeah i am late to the party, but MSWord uses unicode (UTF-8 or UTF-16). For general compatibility the character set should be ISO

A quick check showed UltraEdit set to "Previously used locale", whatever that means.

I set it to 8859-1 and it works now with Skype.

What is the difference between 8859-1 and 8859-15 ?? ...Jim Thompson

What does "better access" mean? ...Jim Thompson

I think from our 'western' PoV, the euro currency symbol? ISTR it's 8859-1 + euro when it came out.

Grant.

alt-0128 => ? in 8859-1

Can you see the euro sign there? I can. ...Jim Thompson

No, we've already established that 0128 is undefined in 8859-1.

MSFT map it to ? for convenience on windows. But that code is undefined elsewhere.

Check for yourself? Open "Character Map" with "Courier New" selected, highlight 'q'. Notice the status line shows "U+0071".

Tap the right arrow to advance the pointer and watch what happens to the Unicode number and you skip from '~' to "No-break Space" and U_00A0 ;)

As far as 8859-15 goes, I go by this list from the linux kernel "Native language support" option setup page: ... NLS ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1; Western European Languages) < > NLS ISO 8859-2 (Latin 2; Slavic/Central European Languages) < > NLS ISO 8859-3 (Latin 3; Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, Turkish) < > NLS ISO 8859-4 (Latin 4; old Baltic charset) < > NLS ISO 8859-5 (Cyrillic) < > NLS ISO 8859-6 (Arabic) < > NLS ISO 8859-7 (Modern Greek) < > NLS ISO 8859-9 (Latin 5; Turkish) < > NLS ISO 8859-13 (Latin 7; Baltic) < > NLS ISO 8859-14 (Latin 8; Celtic) < > NLS ISO 8859-15 (Latin 9; Western European Languages with Euro) ... Grant.

Huh? I "exorcised" alt-0128 and generated that character

Maybe "you've" established, but "we've" not :-)

I definitely have 8859-1 loaded in Agent, alt+ yields all these characters...