Issue with special characters

[MC Hammer]

Hi everyone,
I am having trouble with special characters (mainly greek symbols used in equations) in Flare.
I occasionally have special characters for formulaes and have been inserting them as special characters. I basically enter the character and Flare fills in for me the Unicode in the Quick Character dialog. Then, I insert the special character in the relevant topics.
This is all fine until I need to update any of these topics in my text editor (I use TextPad). When I open the topic using TextPad, I automatically get a message telling me that that page contains characters that do not exist in code page 1252 (ANSI - Latin I), and that they will be converted to the system default if I click on OK. Basically, everytime I have to edit the XML in the text editor (which I need to do often, rather than in the Flare "WYSIWYG") for such topics, I loose the special characters' formatting and these get replaced by question marks.
I am not very familiar with character encoding but I thought that both Windows-1252 or Unicode would be supported. Has anyone else come across this & are there ways to work around it? (this looks to me like it is a TextPad issue rather than a Flare issue...)

Thanks in advance for any help.
Marie-Claire

[cbdebris]

It is a TextPad issue AFAIK.

Try Notepad? XMLSpy?

[KevinDAmery]

There are two versions of unicode, utf-8 and utf-16. Make sure TextPad is set to use the correct one.