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Scite default encoding to UTF-8

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Scite is one of the best text editors out there - functional, fast and lightweight! If you write a lot of text that is not in english (read: UTF-8) it becomes pretty annoying as every time you open Scite.exe it defaults to 8-bit character set. To write or see the opened document with UTF8 characters you have to click File > Encoding > UTF-8. While there is no graphical interface for options, you can still change the default encoding manually. Here is how:

  • Open Scite, click Options > Open global options file
  • search for “#code.page=65001″ (mine is at line 218) and uncomment it (remove # symbol)
  • comment out “code.page=0″ (add # symbol)
  • save the global ooptions file and restart Scite.exe

Now every time you open scite or a document in it, the default encoding will be “Code page property” or UTF-8 in most cases. If it doesn`t work, there area few other lines that you can uncomment right under the mentioned ones.
Hope this helps!

14 Responses to “Scite default encoding to UTF-8”

  1. Greg

    Didn’t work with me. Any suggestions?

    April 10th, 2008 | 06:36
  2. Valters Bože

    hmm, just try to play with the variables, please mind that you need to restart the program everytime you change the settings! It also didnt work for me on first time on another pc..

    April 12th, 2008 | 09:04
  3. Greg

    Thanks, it works now. I don’t know why though.

    April 15th, 2008 | 09:36
  4. Fran

    Thanks! I love when I need to tweak something and find the answer in a blog as #1 result in Google. You never find these bits at official docs.

    I grew so tired of gedit. It is totally crazy when saving. It ate itself to 66% CPU, then kicked nautilus to 50%, then gnome panel to 50%. Like if each time you saved ten lines of text, it checked your disks, did a system backup, did the laundry, walked the dog and calculated a couple nuclear explosions. Seesh.

    July 14th, 2008 | 05:05
  5. Zoran Lazarevic

    Thanks!

    September 20th, 2008 | 11:19
  6. vaggelis

    Worked also for me on a windows workstation machine! Now greek chars are automatically displayed immediately.

    Just to add that if you’re interesting in wrapping your scite docs, instead of following the “option–>wrap” action, unomment (take off ‘#”) from the following line (no.line:142 on v.1.76 of scite):

    wrap=1

    Thnx! SciTE is great.

    November 1st, 2008 | 04:12
  7. Andreas A Paris

    Thank you for your Valters for the tip ‘uncomment the code.page=65001′.

    Best Regards

    December 6th, 2008 | 06:54
  8. Janis

    The encoding setting still stands on Code page property. Is there a propertie which would change the encoding to UTF-8, not change the code page number instead?

    May 15th, 2009 | 11:01
  9. klavi

    Thanks for your explanation, worked fine for me!

    July 16th, 2009 | 11:01
  10. Suraj

    Thanx buddy.
    धन्यबाद। ;)

    July 28th, 2009 | 07:41
  11. martin

    thanks!

    August 18th, 2009 | 06:04
  12. italo maia

    Thanx buddy! It worked great here ^^.

    November 23rd, 2009 | 08:48
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    Thanks. It was useful!

    April 24th, 2010 | 10:50
  14. tinggi badan

    Now every time you open scite or a document in it, the default encoding will be “Code page property” or UTF-8 in most cases. If it doesn`t work, there area few other lines that you can uncomment

    May 14th, 2010 | 04:50

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