From: Ed Trager (ed.trager@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2008 - 12:53:09 CST
Hi, Damon,
Another Unicode editor worth mentioning is Yudit (yudit.org), for
which a Windows binary is now also available (source code and packages
for Linux and other *nix platforms have always been available).
Yudit will allow you to open and save files in any of the three main
Unicode transformation formats (encodings): UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32.
In addition Yudit (on Linux at least) comes with a tool which allows
you to convert numerous other legacy encodings (such as various
Windows code pages) to the more modern UTF formats.
I believe Yudit or the included tool will also allow you to convert
various escaped formats such as ASCII texts containing things like
"\u203d" -- Not sure if HTML entities are handled or not though.
Yudit is definitely worth taking a look at -- At the very least, a
tool such as Yudit along with some additional reading on how Unicode
works will undoubtedly demystify most of it.
Best - Ed
On Jan 9, 2008 12:38 PM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
<asmodai@in-nomine.org> wrote:
> -On [20080109 18:16], Damon Anderson (damon@corigo.com) wrote:
> >I maybe an old dog trying to learn new tricks, but I simply can't
> >understand how Unicode is implemented in GUI editors. From Word to
> >OpenOffice to DreamWeaver when I type Unicode characters and then go to
> >look at the source I see nothing but gobbledy gook hodge podge of odd ASCII
> >characters or Character pairs/groups.
>
...
>
> Personally I am happy enough using (g)vim on Unix and Windows for my Unicode
> needs, but you could also try out BabelPad by our very own Andrew West for a
> good Unicode supporting editor. Alternatively there are a lot of other editors
> that should be ok. Notepad2 also supports Unicode editing and has syntax
> highlighting for various file formats (if you're on Windows).
>
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