That I already knew... but the question remains...

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"Andrew McLaren" <me@somewhere.org> wrote in message
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> Randem wrote:
>> I need to find a way to tell notepad to open a unicode japanese file and
>> use the japanese script so that the letters show correctly. Notepad
>> cannot do this own it's own.
>
> Notepad uses a set of hueristics to determine whether a file is Unicode,
> or some single-byte character set ... in other words, it tries to guess.
>
> Canonically, Unicode files begin with the two byte "Byte-Ordering Mark",
> 0xFF 0xEF (or vice versoa for Little-Endian systems). Pretty well any text
> file which begines with a BOM, will be opened by Notepad as Unicode.
>
> After that, it may come down to Notepad's default font for Unicode
> detection. On a English-language system, the default Notepad font (Lucida
> Console?) does not contain the CJK range of Unicode chars. Try setting the
> default font to a specifically Unicode font such as Arial Unicode MS, or
> Lucida Sans Unicode, and try again. If glyphs for the Unicode characters
> are present in the font set, then the is likely to display correctly. If
> you open a file with Unicode chars which are not in teh current font, then
> it cannot dispay correctly, whether it is correctly detected as Unicode or
> not.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Andrew
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