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Old 03-07-2011, 05:43 PM   #13
getajob
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Problem solved.

Thanks people you have solved my problem. (Thank God, it was driving me nuts...)
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Originally Posted by Perkin View Post
What text editor are you using?
I am using WordPad but at some stage of the journey I decided to 'Save As' in what WordPad calls Unicode.
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Originally Posted by Perkin View Post
If you convert your file with 'UTF-16' as the input character encoding, it also converts properly here.
You are absolutely correct. I tried setting the Input Character Encoding to 'Unicode' but that did not work. 'UTF-16' does not appear in the Input character encoding dropdown list and it never occurred to me to set it to 'UTF-16'.

WordPad has four 'Save As' options: ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian and UTF-8. Notepad is the same.

Using ANSI was giving me the annoying black-diamond-with-question-marks for the odd character so I changed to Unicode encoding.

SOLUTION:
Save your text in UTF-8 format using the 'Save As' dialog of WordPad or Notepad.
In Look & Feel, set Input character encoding to UTF-8
In TXT Input, set Paragraph style to off and set Formatting style to textile.

If you have to use Unicode, then set Input character encoding to UTF-16

Using ANSI is not recommended since it will give you black-diamond-with-question-marks for the odd character (don't ask me why...)
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