Generally speaking, the best "reader" to do it all in is IE.... you can open the text file, change the encoding, and then copy/paste it out into any other file.
Not that "Open as" wouldn't be cool (it would save me some steps!). MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lars Kristan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Asmus Freytag'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 3:23 PM Subject: RE: Unicode and end users > Asmus Freytag wrote: > > Ever since MS let the cat out of the bag with notepad, the > > rush is on for > > all tools to be upgraded to handle the situation. Fine, this > > is the real > > world. > *Sigh* yes, it is. I understand why notepad needs this. For notepad, a file > is either UTF-16 or an ANSI file. Since notepad keeps the internal data in > UTF-16 (just a fair assumption here), it needs to convert. And a UTF-8 BOM > is what makes it use the UTF-8 conversion rather than an ANSI conversion. > > Too bad this happened. Maybe someone at Microsoft should look into this > notepad a little bit more seriously. Was it Windows 4.0 or Windows 2000 that > updated notepad so CTRL-F started working as everywhere else? In either > case, it took a long time for such a major improvement. I wish notepad would > handle LF files (as opposed to CRLF) correctly. I wish there was "Open as" > in the file open dialog, to allow opening OEM encoded files, maybe even > UTF-8 files without BOM... > > > Lars Kristan > >
