Which text editors (free or commercial) handle character encoding and Windows/Unix line breaks properly?
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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
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Nice! This looks quite useful. – John Feminella Jun 16 '09 at 14:39
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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 Jun 16 '09 at 14:40
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MS-Dos editor support is as so. "Editor converts Unix newlines to DOS newlines" – Ólafur Waage Jun 16 '09 at 14:43
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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.
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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 Jun 17 '09 at 20:00
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Scintilla and Scite are my favorites but there are lots of good ones that will do what you want
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On Windows you can use PowerShell ISE for editing files with Unix line breaks.
The only side-effect I observed is that you have to set "Save as type" to "All files" on "Save As..." command to avoid appending .ps1 file extension.
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A good thing about PS ISE is that it presents in windows servers out-of-box. This allows manual tweaks in RDP without set up redundant tools. – moudrick Apr 02 '19 at 11:30
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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.
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