UTF8 Encoding and Letter page size support

[sardinas9]

I use QOwnNotes on a daily basis for my research and personal notes. Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining such a wonderful piece of software.

I wonder if is possible to add UTF8 encoding and implement the option to select UTF8 as default encoding for new text notes.

It would be nice also to have the option to export to and print notes to letter size page. (8.5 by 11.0 inches) (215.9 by 279.4 mm).

Thank you.

[pbek]

encoding

UTF8 should already be used, what are your notes encoded with?

letter

which operating system are you using?

[sardinas9]

Whenever I create a new note from QOwnNotes interface the note is saved in ANSI encoding by default.

I am using Windows 10 Professional Build 10586 and the page size options for export and print from within QON are from A0 to A9.

[pbek]

How did you check the character encoding on Windows? Could you please send me a note you created with QOwnNotes?

[pbek]

In v16.07.1

• added Letter as page size for PDF exports under Windows and OS X

[pbek]

encoding

In my tests notes were created in UTF8 on Windows.

[pbek]

There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if Letter-exporting works for you?

[sardinas9]

Export to letter size works fine. Thank you so much!

I attached a new note without any modification.
Note 2016-07-03T09.30.34.txt

I check the character encoding with Notepad++.
This is a screen capture from the same note opened with NP++

[pbek]

There is no UTF8 character in this note so Notepad++ would never know if it is an UTF8 text file. You need to enter some UTF8-characters. :)

[sardinas9]

I asked about UTF-8 encoding because i noticed that when i created a new note from within QON and then I open the note with NP++ the status bar shows ANSI as encoding (as in the screen capture above). I don't know other way determine the encoding.

[pbek]

You cannot tell if the charset is ISO8859-1, Latin1, ANSI or UTF-8 if there are no special characters in the file. Your file meets all specifications. As long you only use ansi characters the file is everything... UTF-8 uses one to four bytes per character and is compatible to ansi as long you only use ansi characters. ;)