Settings:File handling:Conversions

The File handling » Conversions branch of Settings has the following options.

Use IBM-500 standard for EBCDIC conversion

This setting forces the editor to use the IBM-500 standard for EBCDIC conversion. The default conversion uses published EBCDIC tables but does not provide a direct one-to-one comparison.

Do not convert returns (CR/LF) during EBCDIC conversion

This setting overrides the conversion of EBCDIC returns when converting files to ASCII format. The EBCDIC table calls for conversion of hard returns (CR/LF) but some users requested that this not occur.

On paste convert line ending to destination type (Unix/Mac/DOS)

If this option is selected, the editor will check the line terminator format of the destination file when pasting from the clipboard and modify the line terminators of the clipboard content if necessary to match the line terminator format of the destination file.

Prompt to convert active file to UTF-8 on paste if encoding of clipboard content doesn't match

If this option is selected, and the active file is not a UTF-8 or Unicode file, but the clipboard content is UTF-8 or Unicode, the editor will prompt to convert the file to UTF-8 format before pasting the clipboard content. If you select "Yes," then the file is immediately converted and the clipboard contents are inserted. If you select "No," then no conversion occurs when the clipboard contents are inserted.