Joe Weaks Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 This has bugged me for a long time. When Export as Unicode is selected, the "File/Save text selection as Plain text" is disabled. This makes no sense. Unicode is plain text. In fact, Unicode Greek and Hebrew is even more conducive to saving in plain text format than legacy font encodings, because Unicode Greek/Hebrew actually displays at Greek/Hebrew even in plain text format. Accordance may have internal limitations that make this limitation so, but it is a bug. This bug is even worse, now, since moving "Export as Unicode" outside of the Greek/Hebrew tab, because now if I have even an English-only text selection, and trying to save it as plain text, and it won't allow the Plain text option if the "Unicode export" option is selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Brown Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 As you notice when you select the "File/Save text selection as Plain text' that it specifies it is saving the file as ASCII, which as you know is explicitly not Unicode. What it sounds like you are looking for is that this export, when Unicode is on, uses non-styled Unicode, rather than non-styled ASCII. That is a feature request we'll have to consider! For the record, no functionality changed when the preferences moved around. Export as Unicode has always affected English, and that disabling has always been in place, even for English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Weaks Posted December 6, 2012 Author Share Posted December 6, 2012 Yep, Joel, you understand the problem, of course. Yes, I understand the legacy reasons why the problem is there, of course. And, disabling save as Plain Text is a bug from the user perspective. UTF-8 is plain text, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Knapp Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 (edited) I agree with Joe here. "Plain" is more of a text style (or lack thereof) rather than a text encoding. Scott. Edited December 6, 2012 by Scott Knapp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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