Re: Is Windows 7 Notepad broken?

From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Tue Jun 23 2009 - 03:49:20 CDT

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    TextEdit & Thunderbird: are they not better tools?
    Who can spare the time from realwork to test W7?
    mg

    Scríobh Andrew West:
    > 2009/6/22 Ed Trager <ed.trager@gmail.com>
    >
    >> I think Notepad would be about my last choice for doing any kind of
    >> serious work with Unicode ...
    >>
    >
    > On the contrary, Notepad would be my first choice for testing Unicode
    > support on Windows 7 -- if it is broken in Notepad there is a good
    > chance that it will be broken elsewhere. I don't know why you think
    > that Notepad is not suitable for serious work with Unicode -- in my
    > experience it has the most reliable Unicode support of any Micrososft
    > product, and is usually a better choice than (for example) Word if the
    > Unicode text you are working is fully covered by a single font.
    >
    > Andrew
    >
    >
    >

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