Macro not working as expected in Notepad++

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开发者_StackOverflow 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?

Upgrade to, at least, version 5.8.2 where that problem was fixed. I was experiencing the same problem, upgraded to version 5.8.5 and the problem is gone.

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/release/5.8.2

Fix macro recording bug for the non-ASCII characters.

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

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.

I turned off the auto complete feature and this fixed the issue for me.

How do I stop Notepad++ from showing autocomplete for all words in the file

I had a problem, I typed in some code and it came out wrong in macro.

Then I neglected the advice to type the code and not paste it, and so I copy/pasted the code I needed and it worked fine.

So my advice: write it somewhere else and copy/paste when you start macro.