UltraEdit provides support for Unicode (16-Bit wide character) files, and for UTF-8 files and allows direct editing of Unicode files and UTF-8 files as well as conversion routines between ASCII/ANSI and Unicode or UTF-8. UltraEdit attempts to detect the file type when the file is loaded. It will look for the FF FE mark for Unicode files. For UTF-8 it will look for one of the following three occurrences:
1) Byte order mark (BOM) EF, BB, BF.
2) String occurrences "charset=utf-8" or "encoding=utf-8"
3) It will look for the occurrence of valid UTF-8 multi-byte characters in the first 64KB of a file.
If the file is found to be Unicode, it will be treated as such and the status bar will indicate this. A Unicode file saved in "big Endian" format will be indicated with "UTF-16BE". A Unicode file saved in "little Endian" format will be indicated with "UTF-16".
If the file is found to be UTF-8, it will be treated as such and converted internally to Unicode (16-Bit) for editing. The status bar will indicate this with "UTF-8". When the file is saved, it will be converted back from Unicode to UTF-8 and saved in this format.
The following conversions to and from Unicode/UTF-8 are available:
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converts from ASCII to Unicode |
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converts from UTF-8 to Unicode (16-Bit) |
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converts from Unicode to ASCII |
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UTF-8 to ASCII |
converts from UTF-8 to ASCII |
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ASCII to UTF-8 (Unicode Editing) |
converts from ASCII to UTF-8 with the file internally in UNICODE format for editing |
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converts the file from either Unicode or UTF-8 (non Unicode internally) to UTF-8 with the file internally in UNICODE format for editing |
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converts from Unicode, ASCII or UTF-8 (Unicode format internally) to UTF-8 but leaves the file in non-unicode (ASCII display) format for editing. |