unicode editor

by **Sm!rk** » Jan 17, 2003 @ 8:36pm

I'm looking for a unicode editor for the pocketpc, anyone know of any, maybe open source?

I did a routine search but didn't come up with anything. So hopefully word of mouth can come up with something. I also didn't see any normal editors either, but if you know of a good open source one, I could attempt to add in the unicode part myself.

by **angedelamort** » Jan 17, 2003 @ 9:30pm

what do you want to edit? HTML, code? Generate binaries?

by **sponge** » Jan 17, 2003 @ 11:04pm

I don't think there are ANY editors for any type of file that support Unicode for the PPC.

by **Dan East** » Jan 17, 2003 @ 11:18pm

What do you mean by a unicode editor? Pocket Word can edit unicode text files fine. I just verified it to be sure.

Dan East

by **Sm!rk** » Jan 18, 2003 @ 10:09am

by **Hosed** » Jan 18, 2003 @ 11:48am

by **Sm!rk** » Jan 18, 2003 @ 11:03pm

by **zinger** » Jan 19, 2003 @ 5:48am

by **Dan East** » Jan 19, 2003 @ 3:02pm

Perhaps the endian-ess is backwards. If you want to send a sample text file to me I can take a look at it.

info@dexplor.com

Dan East

by **zinger** » Jan 19, 2003 @ 9:35pm

by **Dan East** » Jan 19, 2003 @ 10:12pm

by **Sm!rk** » Jan 19, 2003 @ 10:28pm

Now thats suprising, the files *do* open fine in notepad on XP. But I'm more surprised that notepad had been updated.

I saved one out with notepad and then checked with the editor I was using to see what it had changed. The Byte order for Unicode as saved by Notepad is low-high, same as the intel procs. It saves as UCS-2, and the only difference, and what may have been causing the problem, is the byte order mark at the beginning of the file. The first editor gave me the option of putting that in, but I hadn't, notepad does it by default (with no option not to) and that seemed to be what Word was expecting. In other words the only thing different was that mark, and it made the difference.

Thanks for the Notepad tip Dan.

by **Sm!rk** » Jan 20, 2003 @ 12:00am

Well thru all of that I am still back at square one, Word can load the unicode files as mentioned, but any changes will cause it to write it back in UTF-8 which is basically normal text, hence no longer readable by my app.

I can't even wager a guess as to why Word would destroy the filetype, but if anyone else knows of any secrets to prevent this it would solve my problem.

by **zinger** » Jan 20, 2003 @ 1:50am

by **Dan East** » Jan 20, 2003 @ 2:18am

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