Why do I get special characters in my Notepad++ macros?

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Ok so every time I go to make a macro for <br /> I wind up getting special characters because of the shift button and such

this is what I wind up getting when I run the macro after just plainly typing <br />

<ûbrû />û

Anonymous

Posted 2011-02-08T23:55:16.193

Reputation: 31

And your question? – rightfold – 2011-02-09T00:12:50.510

What is the macro supposed to do? – systemovich – 2011-02-15T21:53:55.047

Answers

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This is a bug which is fixed in 5.8.2. Time to upgrade!

Sam Holder

Posted 2011-02-08T23:55:16.193

Reputation: 961

2Release information – Daniel Beck – 2011-03-16T19:20:11.547

1

From just looking at your output it looks like your macro was recorded using a multi-byte character set and the current document you're running it does not support multi-byte characters. Try switching your current document format to UTF-8.

heavyd

Posted 2011-02-08T23:55:16.193

Reputation: 54 755