Which text editors (free or commercial) handle character encoding and Windows/Unix line breaks properly?
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textpad does a good job. i like version 4.7 it is much nicer than 5.*
mkoryak
2009-06-16 14:37:38
I like it too - it has neat regular expression search and replace built into it (not as strong as the unix one though)
David Rabinowitz
2009-06-17 20:00:22
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Here's a list of Text editors and their newline support.
Also see this list and look at the Newline conversion field
Ólafur Waage
2009-06-16 14:38:20
I noticed that according to that link the MS DOS editor supports all types, while notepad (which I suppose you could call the windows editor) only supports 1. Crazy.
Simon P Stevens
2009-06-16 14:40:59
MS-Dos editor support is as so. "Editor converts Unix newlines to DOS newlines"
Ólafur Waage
2009-06-16 14:43:57
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Notepad++ is free and handles this dandily. Not to mention it's quite handy for plenty of other text-editing tasks.
John Feminella
2009-06-16 14:38:31
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I can't think of any that does not. I do not count notepad.exe.
Jonas Elfström
2009-06-16 14:38:42
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Scintilla and Scite are my favorites but there are lots of good ones that will do what you want
kloucks
2009-06-16 14:39:40
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Eclipse also does a great job between reformatting between windows and Unix. Additionally as mentioned before, Emacs is great too.
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I'm having no problems whatsoever with formatting, special characters and umlauts by using IDM UltraEdit.
merkuro
2009-06-16 14:40:07