To be frank, it's not really clear from the help, that there are two _different_ modes.
1) You say, that when I choose "View | Hex Edit MODE", I will see the content in UTF-16LE. When I do so with a UTF-8 encoded file, the status line still reads UTF-8, not UTF-16LE. 2) The hex code starts with a UT-16LE BOM. BOMs are meant for files, but not for memory images. 3) When I overwrite the BOM with a blank, code 2000, and switch back to the normal view, each charater is now followed by a blank. I consider this as bugs. -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,61802,61838> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com