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I know from IDM support that this encoding selector behavior change was done after a good deal of internal discussion prompted by messages from users who didn't actually want to convert their files, but simply wanted to change which encoding was used to display the file in certain cases.
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In older versions selecting a different encoding on status bar could result in converting the file to the selected encoding instead of just displaying the bytes of current file according to selected encoding. So the bytes of the currently displayed file can be interpreted using a different encoding as automatically selected on opening the file in case of automatic encoding selection was not correct for the file since UltraEdit for Windows v24.10. There is at bottom of main application window the status bar which contains since UltraEdit for Windows v19.00 the encoding selector. Viewing a file with any character encoding is very easy with UltraEdit. Please read the introducing chapters on power tip page Unicode text and Unicode files in UltraEdit to get better knowledge about character encoding. The hex edit mode displays the bytes of any type of file and not the characters of a text file. You will never see the bytes in hex edit mode displayed Unicode interpreted according to UTF-7, UTF-8 or UTF-16.
#UTF 8 CONVERTER CODE#
The ASCII representation of the bytes (not characters) uses the code page as defined by default for UltraEdit which is by default the ANSI code page defined by Windows according to region (country) configured for the user account. The hex edit mode shows the binary bytes - not characters - of a file.