Copying Strings into Silk Performer

When copying strings into Silk Performer, the paste operation checks if the data:
  • Needs to be converted to the MBCS (system codepage)
  • Can be converted to the MBCS
  • Cannot be converted and so needs to be opened with Silk Performer’s Unicode Text/Hex Editor

If copied data is, for example, UTF-8 encoded and the paste operation fails to convert it to the system codepage, Silk Performer launches its Unicode Text/Hex Editor. The tool is a Unicode application and is therefore able to display any string, regardless if the characters exist in the system codepage. The editor can also display the hex notation of strings in order to paste them into a BDL script.