Manual customization of OEM Character Set command

[burreslk]

I was just upgrade the UltraEdit to v14.20, but I found a preferred font "OEM Character" is gone.
Does anyone know how to enable it in this new version?
It can be found in prevision version under View - OEM Character Set.

Thanks,
-L.K.

[Alejandro]

The feature is definitely in the application executable. It is still at the list of commands available for the toolbar customization, but not for the Menu Customization. The last version I know had it was the 14.00b+1. Then when updated to 14.10.0.1024 the command was gone from the list.

In the toolbar customization dialog the command is listed with Show font with OEM Character Set.

To get it back in the menu, you could manually add it to the Environments you want the menu item on. The files you need to edit have a .mb1 extension, and uedit32.mb0 must be also modified. They are generally located at: %AppData%\IDMComp\UltraEdit. The line to add the menu item is:

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  M "OEM C&haracter Set",      ID_FONT_OEM

P.S: If you manually edit the current (selected) "Environment", then when UltraEdit starts again it restores the previous configuration (without the changes manually added). So, you need to select another environment before editing it.

[Mofi]

Just a hint: It is possible that UltraEdit remembers if an OEM font should be used for a file with a specified extension. So you would not need to select always manually the OEM character view (and edit) for every file opened. See my last post at Different font depending on file extension for details.

It is advisable to add the command OEM Character Set to a customized toolbar when working for some files with OEM character set active by default. This gives you the possibility to easily see for an active file the state of the OEM Character Set setting. In the toolbar customization dialog the command is listed with Show font with OEM Character Set.

[burreslk]

Thank all so much!!
I am using Alejandro's way and it works fine....great!!

[tsmith35]

Not to dredge up an old topic, but I can't find the OEM Character Set command in the View menu anymore since updating to v17.10...

I tried several different fonts, but the command is still missing. According to the help files, it should be there.

[Mofi]

The command OEM Character Set was removed by IDM in UltraEdit v14.10. If you need that command because you often have to edit files using OEM character set, you can add it manually to a customized menu or a customized toolbar as explained above.

I will report IDM by email that page with title OEM Character Set (View menu) still exists in help of UltraEdit referenced from keywords index although the command was removed long time ago and is not referenced anymore from contents index or any other help page.