Skype Messenging Question

I can copy text messages in Skype and paste into a text editor.

But if I try to paste English text into the Skype text box, it shows like Chinese characters :-(

Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks! ...Jim Thompson

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

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UNICODE and code page issues?

Jamie.

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I'm using UltraEdit. ...Jim Thompson

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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"

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

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

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Y'r welcome.

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

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). If it is Unicode, two bytes are used for one character. Try Ctrl-H in UltraEdit and you'll see if it is in ASCII or Unicode. If it is Unicode, you can use File->Convert->Unicode To ASCII (PS: I have the German version of Ultraedit, I don't know the exact English names of the menu points).

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

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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

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

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

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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

8859-1 or 8859-15. I would have expected UltraEdit to default to 8859-1 instead of UTF-8 (if that is what is actually going on). I have Agent set to 8859-15 but able to receive UTF-8 as well.
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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

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8859-15 has a little better access to accented characters and foreign currency symbols.
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What does "better access" mean? ...Jim Thompson

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

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alt-0128 => ? in 8859-1

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

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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.

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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...

0123 { 0124 | 0125 } 0126 ~ 0127 nada 0128 ? 0129 ? square, but Agent balks at sending it 0130 ? 0131 ? 0132 ? 0133 ? 0134 ? 0135 ? 0136 ? ...Jim Thompson
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