floating preview wrong text preview

[yusef88]

floating preview doesn't preview Arabic text correctly
no problem with preview pane. my system locale is Arabic
XYplorer: 18.20.0203

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System Locale ID: 3073 (ar-EG)
Thread Locale ID: 3073 (ar-EG)
Default ANSI Code Page: 1256  (ANSI - Arabic)
Active ANSI Code Page: 1256  (ANSI - Arabic)
Default OEM code page: 720   (Arabic - Transparent ASMO)
Active OEM Code Page: 720   (Arabic - Transparent ASMO)
Is DBCS Code Page: No

[admin]

1) Is that a new problem since 18.20.0203?
2) Can you send me that file, please?

[yusef88]

When did the problem start exactly? I don't know. What I know it was working before properly
BTW, word files are previewed correctly

[admin]

It was indeed a new bug added in 18.20.0203. Fix coming...

[yusef88]

Thanks

[yusef88]

happens again in latest beta

[admin]

Which is the last version that works?

[yusef88]

Does this setting affect floating preview? (my system locale is Arabic)
Changing format to Arabic solved the floating preview issue.
sorry for any inconvenience

[admin]

Yep, it needs to be Arabic to work as you wish.

I will add something to the next beta that will make it easier for you (and independent of that system setting!):

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    + Text Preview: Added tweak to remember the last selected code page across 
      previews:
        TextPreviewCodePageRemember=1
      If TextPreviewCodePageRemember=0 then the codepage will automatically 
      switch back to the system default code page for the next preview.
      Tip: You select the codepage under the orange button on the Preview tab on 
      the Info Panel (F12) while a text file is being previewed.
      If TextPreviewCodePageRemember=1 then you can, for example, set the 
      codepage to Arabic (1256) and all text previews will use this codepage to 
      interprete the bytes in the file. Advantage: You don't have to set the 
      system-wide default codepage to Arabic!

[yusef88]

a very welcome change. Thank you
small note: the new tweak doesn't support Hover Box

[admin]

small note: the new tweak doesn't support Hover Box

Wow! Thanks for the hint...

[admin]

Well, runret() can return Unicode. You can run this in a directory full of Chinese files:

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text runret("cmd /c chcp 65001 & cmd /c dir", , 65001);

But I can't make the same trick work with UnRAR.exe (fill in <RAR archive>):

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text runret('cmd /c chcp 65001 & "C:\Program Files (x86)\WinRAR\UnRAR.exe" lb "<RAR archive>"', , 65001);

[yusef88]

if you restart XYplorer. you have to show Preview Pane first then open Floating Preview to get text previewed correctly.
problem has gone in XYplorer 19.30.0028

[admin]

if you restart XYplorer. you have to show Preview Pane first then open Floating Preview to get text previewed correctly.
problem has gone in XYplorer 19.30.0028

Well, not here. Fix comes in 19.30.0029

[yusef88]

This feature is great but the downside it is not auto detecting other encoding formats such as UTF-8