User Guide

About file encoding 43
Several operations—such as opening and saving files, backing up before replacing
text in files, displaying thumbnails for the images in a folder, browsing to files in tag
editors, and creating an image map—refer to the current directory.
The Files tabs use the following rules to determine which directory is the current
directory:
• When browsing to a file in a tag editor, the current directory is the folder that the
current document is in.
Options > Settings > General > Display current folder in file dialogs must be set.
• If only one Files tab is visible, the current directory is the one displayed in the
visible File tab.
• If both Files tabs are visible, or neither Files tab is visible, then the current
directory is the one displayed in the primary Files tab (Files 1 tooltip).
You can move and dock tabs, for example to display or hide both Files tabs.
About file encoding
If you work with non-ANSI–encoded documents, you can open encoded files and
save files with character encoding.
The following encoding formats are supported:
• ANSI (Current system code page)
• Unicode
• Unicode Big Endian
• UTF-8
Processing files from Unicode encoding formats involves codepage checking,
detection of file encoding, and format conversions. Therefore, enabling non-ANSI
file encoding slows document handling operations in the Editor. You can also work
with ANSI files while working with Unicode files, but for optimal performance, only
enable non-ANSI file encoding when you must open or save Unicode files.
By default, files are not handled as Unicode.
Note
You cannot transfer a Unicode file successfully using a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
enabled FTP server. Disable the SSL feature in the Configure FTP Server dialog box
before transferring these types of files.
To enable non-ANSI file encoding:
1In the Options > Settings > File Settings pane, select Enable non-ANSI file
encoding.
2 (Optional) Select the option to display encoding information on the Document
tab in the Editor window.
3 Click Apply.