Re: texteditors that can process and save in different encodings

>>> Ideal would be an editor that gives me previews in an easy-to-use
>>> encoding selection menu that in addition highlights fully or almost-
>>> compatible encodings, highlights (after loading) positions in the file
>>> that don't conform to the requested encoding (and lets me choose how
>>> to handle them), and knows different versions of encodings.

>>> As some codepages had minor additions or corrections in later
>>> versions, it'd be useful to have an editor that offers the choice to
>>> access earlier versions of encodings - this is clearly specialist
>>> usage but the knowledge exists.
>>
>> Even for character-set wonks like us, it's hard to see that being
>> useful in a practical sense.
>
> Non-additive changes are rare, yes. Anyways, the main thing is that I
> want to see the functionality and knowledge somewhere in a usable
> little program; it doesn't necessarily have to be bundled into a
> texteditor scenario.

Thanks to all recent replies. I have one quick afterthought about my
second paragraph: While use is indeed limited, knowing different
encodings' versions is really just knowledge, not "functionality": any
editor or piece of software that can deal with different codepages has
in principle the ability to do the same sorts of things with different
codepages' versions. So /that/ is just a question of having that
knowledge be documented somewhere (and put into the right shape), but
(unlike my first paragraph) not one of software features.

Stephan
Received on Tue Oct 09 2012 - 15:21:58 CDT