Macro not working as expected in Notepad++

Question

I just installed notepad++ and i am having some problems with macros in it.

i have a simple text file below:

hi 
i am here
this is the third line

i kept the cursor at the first line before "hi".Now i selected start recording macro in the menu.i typed 'hi' before 'hi'(the actual word in the line) like below and pressed [Home] key in the keyboard and then pressed down arrow.Now i selected stop recording macro from the menu

hihi
i am here 
this is the third line

but when i run the macro i am getting the following output

hihi 
hˆi«i am here
hˆi«this is the third line

Could anybody please tell me where is the problem?

Answer 1

same here as for Matt. For language, I was in normal text.

Answer 2

As mentioned in my comment at top, I have also been experiencing this same issue. Strange characters inserted when playing back a macro. This worked OK with previous versions, but appears to have been a bug introduced with version 5.7

It does appear to be an encoding issue. I have been able to workaround this issue by switching to UTF-8 encoding whilst recording the macro - as mentioned in the comment of this bug report.

This has been reported as a bug several times recently. Many are still open, however, one is reported as fixed. And is reported as fixed in the current release (5.8.2) - which also introduces several new features as regards macros. However, nothing later than v5.7 is yet available from the auto-updater within Notepad++ itself. However, you can manually download the latest installer from SourceForge.net.