Unicode / UTF-8 support - Revision history

Nadja pollard idera at 19:53, 12 May 2026

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Idmadmin at 16:47, 31 October 2017

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Idmadmin: Created page with "Category:General"

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	The encoding selector in the [[status bar]] only changes the encoding used to ''view'' the file. It does not actually change the file's underlying encoding type.		The encoding selector in the [[status bar]] only changes the encoding used to ''view'' the file. It does not actually change the file's underlying encoding type.
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		+	The following conversions to and from Unicode/UTF-8 are available:
		+	{\|
		+	!Conversion Type
		+	!Description
		+	\|-
		+	\|ASCII to Unicode
		+	\|Converts from ASCII to Unicode.
		+	\|-
		+	\|UTF-8 to Unicode
		+	\|Converts from UTF-8 to Unicode (16-bit)..
		+	\|-
		+	\|Unicode to ASCII
		+	\|Converts from Unicode to ASCII.
		+	\|-
		+	\|UTF-8 to ASCII
		+	\|Converts from UTF-8 to ASCII.
		+	\|-
		+	\|ASCII to UTF-8 (Unicode Editing)
		+	\|Converts from ASCII to UTF-8 with the file internally in UNICODE format for editing.
		+	\|-
		+	\|Unicode/UTF-8 to UTF-8 (Unicode)
		+	\|Converts the file from either Unicode or UTF-8 (non-Unicode internally) to UTF-8 with the file internally in UNICODE format for editing.
		+	\|-
		+	\|Unicode/ASCII/UTF-8 to UTF-8 (ASCII)
		+	\|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.
		+	\|}

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		+	UltraEdit / UEStudio provides support for Unicode (16-bit wide character, or UTF-16) and UTF-8 files. You can directly edit UTF-8 and UTF-16 files and convert them between ANSI and Unicode formats. UltraEdit / UEStudio will attempt to detect the file's encoding type when the file is loaded. It will look for the FF FE mark for Unicode (UTF-16) files. For UTF-8 it will look for one of the following three occurrences:
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		+	# [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark Byte order mark (BOM)]: EF BB BF.
		+	# String occurrences "charset=utf-8" or "encoding=utf-8" in the file.
		+	# The occurrence of valid UTF-8 multi-byte characters in the first 64KB of the file.
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		+	If the file is determined to be Unicode, it will be treated as such and the [[status bar]] will indicate this. A Unicode file saved in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness big endian] format will be indicated with "UTF-16BE". A Unicode file saved in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness little endian] format will be indicated with "UTF-16".
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		+	If the file is determined to be UTF-8, it will be treated as such and on open, it will be 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.
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		+	You can convert files between different encoding formats using the two following methods:
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		+	* Via the "Encoding" drop down in the [[Save as]] dialog
		+	* Via the [[Conversions (encoding)\|Conversions]] drop down in the [[:Category:Advanced tab\|Advanced tab]].
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		+	The encoding selector in the [[status bar]] only changes the encoding used to ''view'' the file. It does not actually change the file's underlying encoding type.