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" <lars.kristan@hermes.si>
To: "'Asmus Freytag'" <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>; <unicode@unicode.org>
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
>
>
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