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
