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Originally Posted by ghostyjack
NoteTab is definatly good at this sort of thing but does it fully support UTF-8?
Last time I used it (admittedly it was a long time ago), this functionality was not there and it gave me many problems with using curly quotes and other characters. I ended up stopping using it and just resorting to using simple macros in Notepad++
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Within reason. It's not a native unicode editor. If the text fits within a single ASNI code page, supported by Windows (assuming that's what we're talking about here), then it'll work; if the characters are based on a code page not supported by your own Windows system, it wil fail to convert.
However, given the massive advantages that NTP has over NotePad, I tend not to worry about it. The clip library alone is worth its weight in gold; there are thousands of user-contributed clips available in the website clip-library, hell, I love the damned thing. I haven't really had any problems, particularly with curlies and the like (of course, I tend to convert to named entities whenever possible, due to reading-device weirdness and uniquities.)
Is it perfect? No, but the ability to open an entire directory of files and regex across it all at once (
and UNDO them all, if needed)...man, hard to beat that. Coupled with the rather endless clip libraries, so I can maintain a library of my own oft-used regex...just love it. Create outlines, FTP script commands, CSS cheatsheets in one library...(euro exchange rates, which is a hoot)...and, here's the thing: it's CHEAP.
HTH,
Hitch