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Notepad++ 5.6

  -  3.28 MB  -  Open Source
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  • Latest Version

    Notepad++ 8.7.1 (32-bit)

  • Operating System

    Windows XP / XP64 / Vista / Vista64 / Windows 7 / Windows 7 64

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  • Author / Product

    Don Ho / External Link

  • Filename

    npp.5.6.Installer.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    22544ce90d65d4267d4f32e383e44aaa

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Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Notepad++ 5.6.


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What's new in this version:

# New features and Fixed Bugs:

* Add languages encoding - Chinese traditional (BIG5), Chinese Simplified (GB2312), Japanese (Shift JIS), Korean (EUC), Thai (TIS-620), Hebrew (iso-8859-8), Hebrew (1255), Central European (1250), Cyrillic (1251), Cyrillic (KOI8-U), Cyrillic (KOI8-R), Cyrillic (Mac), Western European(1252), Greek (1253), Turkish(1254), Arabic (1256), Baltic (1257), Vietnamese (1258), ISO_8859-1 to ISO_8859-16 and a lot of more.
* Add auto-detection of HTML and XML files encodings.
* Add COBOL, D, Gui4Cli, PowerShell and R language support.
* Add Marker Jumper feature (Jump down/up : Ctrl+Num/Ctrl+Shift+Num).
* Add indent guide line highlighting for html/xml tags.
* Add system tray context menu and new command argument "-systemtray".
* Fix Unicode to ANSI encoding bug.
* Fix last recent file list menu items localization encoding bug.
* Fix last recent file number goes to zero issue.
* Add new command argument "--help".
* Fix Calltip hint bug and add a new capacity in it.
* Add the ability to add the second keyword group for user in both LISP and Scheme languages.
* Fix the wrap symbol display problem.
* Add SQL ESC symbol '\'.
* Fix column editor insert number bug in virtual space mode.
* Fix status bar displaying "-2 char" issue for a empty document.
* Fix installation of NppShell64 failed issue in installer.

# Included plugins (Unicode):

* TextFX v0.26
* NppExec v0.3.2
* Spell Checker v1.3.3
* MIME Tools v1.6
* NppExport v0.2.8
* NppNetNote v0.1
* Compare Plugin 1.5.5
* Plugin Manager 0.9.3.0

# Included plugins (ANSI):

* TextFX v0.25
* NppExec v0.3.2
* Spell Checker v1.3.3
* MIME Tools v1.6
* NppExport v0.2.8
* Light Explorer v1.5
* NppNetNote v0.1
* Compare Plugin 1.5.5
* Plugin Manager 0.9.3.0

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