texteditors that can process and save in different encodings

From: Stephan Stiller <stephan.stiller_at_gmail.com>
> Dear all,
>
> In your experience, what are the best (plaintext) texteditors or word
> processors for Linux / Mac OS X / Windows that have the ability to *save* in
> many different encodings?
>
> This question is more specific than asking which editors have the best
> knowledge of conversion tables for codepages (incl their different
> versions), which I'm interested in as well. There are a number of programs
> that appear to be able to *read* many different encodings – though I prefer
> the type that actually tells me about where format errors are when a file
> is loaded. Then, many editors that claim to be able to read all those
> encodings cannot *display* them; as for that, I don't care about font
> choice and the aesthetics of display, as I'm only interested in plaintext.
>
> Some things I have seen that are no good:
>
> - the editor not telling me about the encoding and line breaks it has
> detected and not letting me choose
> - the editor displaying a BOM in hex mode even if there is none (a
> version of UltraEdit I worked with at some point)
>
> Stephan

I've never fully explored the vagueries of its code page detection, but I use
Notepad++ notepad-plus-plus.org due to the ability to explicitly define Unix vs
Windows line breaks, BOM vs BOMless, and over 50 supported code pages and
encoding forms.

Van Anderson
Received on Thu Oct 04 2012 - 02:46:03 CDT