Strange crash/recovery issue

[fincs]

Strange crash/recovery issue

[fincs]

That's the old version from 2014. Have you tried the latest version (v3.1.0) from 2022?

[doubledave22]

I have, I didn't personally like it. I think I was having trouble with fold.on.open=1 in my user properties. I will try again and let you know.

Notably forcing the File codepage to UTF-8 has stabilized the editor. Any idea why my "system default" was not longer operating normally? Is there a way to check my system default encoding somehow?

[doubledave22]

on v3.1.0 it seems to be stable even on "system default" for encoding however it seems to be a different encoding as I am used to. It's fairly minor, certain hacky things like creating arrows with wingding characters is no longer working with either "system default" or utf-8 on v3.1.0.

I deeply rely on fold.on.open=1 in user settings and that doesnt seem to be working on my 3.1.0 still. Perhaps you could recommend a fix there also.

[fincs]

I cannot reproduce the fold.on.open issue (it works for me, in SciTEUser.properties). As for the file encoding issue, I'd like to see what kind of "wingding" characters you're seeing. � fwiw is the Unicode replacement character, used to signify an encoding error. The most reliable encoding to save your scripts is UTF-8.

[doubledave22]

I've abused brackets in some pretty questionable ways and I guess on the new version fold.on.open can't handle some of these cases. Version 3.0.06.01 just happily folds everything but I guess I'm punished in v3.1.0 for these not so good practices. On a smaller simpler project the folding does work.

As for the encoding stuff, I was seeing "�" when importing my code directly from github in the place of certain characters such as ¢ or • but I wasn't in UTF-8 and I think github was converting it when I pushed the code so all that makes sense.

For the wingdings stuff, I wanted a simple way to put an arrow as the text of a button so I used the font wingdings with the button text "à" and this created a right arrow. Now all I see is the "à" as the button text. I'm sure this has to do with the encoding as well and it's not a huge deal, I will find another way to display the shapes I want.

My real only huge question mark is why did my whole system freeze up suddenly and my encoding change when saving my work on Scite4Autohotkey.