On 16/10/2012, Jukka K. Korpela <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012-10-16 13:06, Christopher Fynn wrote: > >> On Windows I use Andrew West's Babel Pad >> >> http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html > > As far as I can see, the “Encoding” menu in “Save As” in BabelPad has > just a small set of encodings to choose from, basically just UTF-8 and > UTF-16 and GP18030. There’s UTF-32 and SCSU too… the rest is not > encodings but file formats (ASCII encoding, with non-ASCII characters > represented using various escape notations, like \u1234 (“ASCII Plus > something”). But not even ISO-8859-1.
> BabelPad is great as a Unicode editor, but it’s not particularly > oriented towards dealing with different encodings. And I think it’s > really better to use dedicated code converters rather than build a large > number of character code and encoding conversions into various > application programs. Babel Pad opens a lot more encodings than it Saves As I usually have to convert from legacy encodings - not to them, so it works for me It also has a lot of other features which I find very useful. I agree that if you have to do a lot of conversions from and to different encodings then a dedicated code converter is probably better.
