Dear subscribers of this newsletter, The 3rd beta version of Notepad2 4.0.22 has been released. The effective range of the --e command line switch has been expanded to newly created files and untitled documents. The following command will now bring up a Notepad2 window in KOI8-R mode: notepad2.exe --e koi8-r The next example demonstrates how to silently create a new file in the desired encoding: notepad2.exe --e ibm437 --q c:\dir\newfile.txt Support for some common EBCDIC encodings has been enabled, as well. Encoding ini-settings are mapped back to the previous settings as of Notepad2 version 3.x to retain ini-file compatibility. Users of Notepad2 4.0.22-beta1 and beta2 may need to set default encoding options, once again. A new option to set extra line spacing has been added to the default and 2nd default schemes. Download from the Notepad2 website: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html Best wishes, --flo