Invalid language code page detection.

[rstaganrog]

Internal Lister's viewer (by F3) of Total Commander 7.04 (and early too) wrong autodetect some cyrilic-coded (Win866 or OEM DOS) texts. Below I put simple example of this file - you need save this text (between <begin file> and <end file>) as ASCII - DOS encoded:

<begin file>
C:\WINDOWS\system32>xcopy /z \\srv1\repl\Export \\srv2\repl\Import /E /S /Y /D
Скопировано файлов: 0.
07.02.2008
06:11
<end file>

To viewing this file as cyrillic text I need after opening file by pressing <F3>-key - press <S>-key to switch to ASCII DOS encoding.

Many other editors (AkelPad, as example) autodect this DOS-coded files without any problems.

[rstaganrog]

<post modified>
7.50 countinued autodetection problem

[Boofo]

When I try to save it an ASCII text file, it doesn't save it right as it needs to be saved as Unicode. Otherwise I get ????? in place of the second line.

[rstaganrog]

When I try to save it an ASCII text file, it doesn't save it right as it needs to be saved as UTF. Otherwise I get ????? in place of the second line.

My example has a russian text, which you see as ?????.

I want to place link to my example file, but forum engine block it...

[Boofo]

It shows Russian text in your post fine. I just can't save it as an ASCII text file. Editplus tells me I will lose some formatting if I choose ASCII. It has to be saved as Unicode on my system to be able to see the Russian text.

[rstaganrog]

link to my file:
content5.files.mail.ru/X37BO6/445efc317508491fbbf192260948ad8a

[rstaganrog]

Can you download test file on my link?

[ghisler(Author)]

Sorry, I will not work on this problem for now because there are simply too many languages to consider.

[Postkutscher]

2rstaganrog
I can recommend you to use SynPlus plugin (or some of its analog), which haves it`s own detection system.

[MVV]

Internal Lister's viewer (by F3) of Total Commander 7.04 (and early too) wrong autodetect some cyrilic-coded (Win866 or OEM DOS) texts.

That's an old problem... If you frequently work with files in DOS-866 codepage, you should use external viewer or editor instead of Lister (maybe written especially for 866 codepage).

It shows Russian text in your post fine. I just can't save it as an ASCII text file. Editplus tells me I will lose some formatting if I choose ASCII.

You can save texts with symbols not from your current codepage only as Unicode. For example, user with RU codepage can't save some German symbols as ASCII text - which is absent in RU ASCII table.


I think it will be great in such cases to have possibility to setup codepage delection rules for each codepage manually.