TextEdit seems to work nicely with RTF and Unicode (although I am not a 
"power user"), but I've discovered a deficiency in opening files. I 
have a whole bunch of text files in Big5 (Traditional Chinese) encoding 
downloaded from Web pages. These are no problem for Nisus Writer, which 
easily renders them when you force them into a Traditional Chinese 
font. But for some reason TextEdit cannot render them in Chinese, even 
when I choose Big5 encoding from the Open... dialog, change to a 
Traditional Chinese font, etc. I always get a screenful of garbage.

So while at the outset TextEdit looks like a multilingual dream, it 
stumbles on simple tasks like this.

One can only hope that NW X will not have this problem.

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Rick Davis
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http://www.yin.or.jp/user/rdavis/

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