Text Input and Output dialog boxes

 

 

This dialog box appears when you select the Browse button menu / Reopen with encoding...menu or Browse button menu / Set text output options... You can also select a side by giving it the focus and then select the top menu Side / Reopen with encoding...

In Text Comparisons or Text Edition, it enables you to change the encoding in which the current text document will be loaded or saved.  In Folder Comparisons, the options will applied on text files the software will try to open.

Specifying the loading encoding will compute again the comparison or reload the text file(s). Specifying the output encoding will check that the current output text is valid with respect to the chosen output encoding but will not touch the text file(s) yet.

Ellié Computing Merge supports around one hundred different character encodings among the mostly used. It is frequently tested against files from various encodings, if you have trouble with particular files and encodings please contact the support team by creating a support ticket.

Press F1 or click on the Help button while in this dialog box will show this topic.

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