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LaRoza
July 12th, 2008, 11:14 PM
Hi, I just had a frusterating moment in programming.

I was doing web development, so I was in Windows Vista. The program I was writing, http://laroza.freehostia.com/home/apps/hindi, was simple, but very hard to get done. My normal method of writing such things is to use Python to generate the code, but Python couldn't handle the Devanagari. My editor, Crimson Editor, couldn't either. In fact, GVim couldn't and the only one that could (that I could find) had a trial period of about five minutes and was over $100!

So, I did what anyone in my situation would have done, I programmed a text editor that I could use (bare necessities, but it worked with Unicode) because it was quicker than downloading and installing random software. I boot into Ubuntu and find Gedit handles it with no problem.

What Windows text editor that is free (GPL or similiar) supports Unicode and is good for programming?

xlinuks
July 12th, 2008, 11:49 PM
I use jEdit.
www.jedit.org

Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode.

kknd
July 12th, 2008, 11:57 PM
I think Geany supports.