[texworks] ver 567 Scripts - Cariag/Line returns now coming back as ??

[Paul A Norman]

Thank you Jonathan,
Yes there is a "% !TEX encoding" line in your file." from the document template.

And as I sat thinking about this I realised that it got carelessly
altered by me in  a bulk 'replace all' - to --

Where are these "% !TEX"  type things enumerated please?

Paul

On 18 March 2010 02:41, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 17 Mar 2010, at 02:03, Paul A Norman wrote:
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>> Does this relate? When I reopen one of my master documents, it has a call for
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>> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % set input encoding (not needed with XeLaTeX)
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>> As per the document template.
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> I don't think TeXworks should pay any attention to this. However, if there's a "% !TEX encoding = ....." comment, it will try to interpret this to detect the character encoding as it reads the file.
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>> I get a message box when the document opens complaining that UTF--8 is
>> not supported it will be interpreted as  UTF-8
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> True; I've never heard of "UTF--8" (and more important, neither has Qt's text codec collection). It looks like maybe a TeX-style en-dash? That's not appropriate in the encoding name.
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>> What is the difference between UTF (two dashes) 8 and UTF (one dash) 8?
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> Simple: the first is wrong, the second is correct. So the question is, where's that "UTF--8" coming from? My guess is that there must be a "% !TEX encoding" line in your file.
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> JK
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