| You can use any keyboard layout and any IME (input method editor) for any language or script that Windows provides in the Regional Settings in the Control Panel. That includes right-to-left scripts such as Hebrew or Arabic and complex scripts such as the Indic scripts. If you set the default encoding in EditPad to Unicode, you can use all languages and scripts at the same time in a single file. You can even use exotic scripts that don't have legacy Windows code pages, or built-in support from Windows. EditPad Pro is fully compatible with all your virtual keyboard drivers, such as those created with the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC). EditPad Pro's character map allows you to insert any character supported by the current file's encoding, which is very convenient for working with characters or languages that you cannot type on your keyboard. The status bar can indicate the code page numbers and Unicode code points of characters as you type or scroll through a file. Code Pages Supported by EditPad Pro EditPad Pro supports a very wide range of code pages used to save text files on Windows computers and other platforms. You can instantly convert a file between any two encodings by selecting Convert|Text Encoding in the menu, or re-interpret a file using a different encoding in case EditPad Pro's auto-detection fails. You can specify different default encodings for each file type. Unicode Unicode text files can store text in any language known to humanity. Modern globalized applications often use UTF-8 or UTF-16 to save text files. - UTF-8
- UTF-16 little endian
- UTF-16 big endian
- UTF-32 little endian
- UTF-32 big endian
All Windows (ANSI) Code Pages Windows applications that don't use Unicode save text files using one of the Windows code pages, often called "ANSI" code pages in technical documentation for Windows. EditPad Pro supports all single byte (Western languages) and double byte (Far East languages) code pages, allowing you to open any text file created on a Windows computer. - Windows 1250: Central European
- Windows 1251: Cyrillic
- Windows 1252: Western European
- Windows 1253: Greek
- Windows 1254: Turkish
- Windows 1255: Hebrew
- Windows 1256: Arabic
- Windows 1257: Baltic
- Windows 1258: Vietnam
- Windows 874: Thai
- Windows 932: Japanese Shift-JIS
- Windows 949: Korean
- Windows 936: Simplified Chinese GBK
- Windows 950: Traditional Chinese Big5
All ISO-8859 Code Pages Applications that don't use Unicode running on Linux and other UNIX variants usually save text files using one of the ISO-8859 code pages. EditPad Pro supports all ISO-8859 code pages, allowing you to open any text file created on a Linux computer. - ISO-8859-1 Latin-1 Western European
- ISO-8859-2 Latin-2 Central European
- ISO-8859-3 Latin-3 South European
- ISO-8859-4 Latin-4 North European
- ISO-8859-5 Cyrillic
- ISO-8859-6 Arabic
- ISO-8859-7 Greek
- ISO-8859-8 Hebrew
- ISO-8859-9 Latin-5 Turkish
- ISO-8859-10 Latin-6 Nordic
- ISO-8859-11 Thai (TIS-620)
- ISO-8859-13 Latin-7 Baltic Rim
- ISO-8859-14 Latin-8 Celtic
- ISO-8859-15 Latin-9
- ISO-8859-16 Latin-10 South-Eastern European
EUC Code Pages EUC stands for Extended UNIX Code. These encodings were common on UNIX platform for encoding text in Far East languages that use up to two bytes per character. EditPad Pro supports the EUC code pages that were commonly used prior to Unicode. - EUC-JP: Japanese (JIS 201 + JIS 208)
- EUC-JP-212: Japanese (JIS 201 + JIS 208 + JIS 212)
- EUC-KR: Korean (KS 1001)
- EUC-CN: Simplified Chinese (GB 2312)
- EUC-TW: Traditional Chinese (CNS 11643)
ASCII EditPad Pro can interpret pure 7-bit ASCII files in several ways. If you select US-ASCII (7-bit) you'll see pure ASCII. EditPad Pro also supports a number of ASCII-based notations. EditPad Pro will display the actual (Unicode) characters and allow you to type and paste actual characters. But the file on disk will be pure ASCII, using the selected notation to encode non-ASCII characters. - ASCII with \uFFFF Unicode escapes
- ASCII with hexadecimal  and/or decimal  Unicode character references
- ASCII with HTML entities (e.g. é for é)
- VIQR: Vietnamese Quoted-Readable
DOS Code Pages EditPad Pro supports a wide variety of code pages used by the legacy DOS operating systems like MS-DOS and PC-DOS. These code pages include the famous "box drawing symbols" used by text-based DOS applications to simulate graphical menus and windows. - DOS 437: United States
- DOS 737: Greek
- DOS 775: Baltic Rim
- DOS 850: Western European
- DOS 852: Central European
- DOS 855: Cyrillic
- DOS 857: Turkish
- DOS 860: Portuguese
- DOS 861: Icelandic
- DOS 862: Hebrew
- DOS 863: Canadian French
- DOS 864: Arabic
- DOS 865: Nordic
- DOS 866: Cyrillic Russian
- DOS 869: Greek 2
Classic Mac Code Pages Files created on modern Macs running OS X normally use Unicode. Files created on older Macs will probably use one of these legacy code pages. - Mac Arabic
- Mac Celtic
- Mac Central European
- Mac Croatian
- Mac Cyrillic
- Mac Dingbats
- Mac Farsi
- Mac Gaelic
- Mac Greek
- Mac Hebrew
- Mac Icelandic
- Mac Inuit
- Mac Roman (Western European)
- Mac Romanian
- Mac Symbol
- Mac Thai
- Mac Turkish
- Mac Chinese Simplified
- Mac Chinese Traditional
- Mac Devanagari
- Mac Gujarati
- Mac Gurmukhi
- Mac Japanese
- Mac Korean
Other Legacy Code pages The code pages provided by DOS and Windows weren't sufficient or optimal for all languages. This resulted in a wide range of code pages used in specific regions. The KOI8 encodings are very popular for encoding Russian text files. If you receive files with text in Russian, they're likely to be encoded in KOI8 rather than in Windows 1251 or ISO-8859-5. Vietnamese files often use legacy code pages that encode all characters with one byte rather than Windows 1258 which uses combining marks. - ArmSCII-7: Armenian
- ArmSCII-8: Armenian
- ArmSCII-8A: Armenian
- GEOSTD8: Georgian
- ISCII Bengali & Assamese
- ISCII Devanagari
- ISCII Gujarati
- ISCII Kannada
- ISCII Malayalam
- ISCII Oriya
- ISCII Punjabi (Gurmukhi)
- ISCII Tamil
- ISCII Telugu
- ISIRI 3342: Farsi
- ISO-10858: Armenian
- Kamenický: Czech & Slovak
- KOI8-R: Russian
- KOI8-U: Ukranian
- KZ-1048: Kazach
- Mazovia: Polish
- MIK: Bulgarian
- PTCP154: Cyrillic Asian
- TCVN: Vietnamese
- VISCII: Vietnamese
- VNI: Vietnamese
- VPS: Vietnamese
- YUSCII Cyrillic: Yugoslavia
- YUSCII Latin: Yugoslavia
EBCDIC The EBCDIC encodings were the de facto standard when computer files were saved on punch cards, and are still used by mainframe systems from IBM and other vendors. EditPad Pro supports the more commonly used EBCDIC encodings. - EBCDIC 037: US & Canada
- EBCDIC 424: Hebrew
- EBCDIC 500: International
- EBCDIC 875: Greek
- EBCDIC 1026: Turkish
Complex Legacy Encodings EditPad can convert text from and to several other encodings. These encodings cannot be edited directly because they use partial bytes to encode characters (UTF-7), use a state mechanism that requires the entire file to be processed (ISO-2022 and HZ), or use a single byte to represent multiple Unicode characters (TSCII). If you edit a file using one of these encodings, EditPad Pro will convert it to Unicode when reading the file and convert it back into the legacy encoding when saving the file. - Unicode, UTF-7
- ISO-2022-JP: Japanese (JIS 201+208)
- ISO-2022-JP-1: Japanese (JIS 201+208+212)
- ISO-2022-JP-2: Japanese multilingual (JIS 201+208+212)
- ISO-2022-KR: Korean (KS 1001)
- ISO-2022-CN: Chinese (GB 2312 + CNS 11643)
- HZ: Simplified Chinese
- TSCII: Tamil
|  | | Insert any character known to humanity in your Unicode text files. You can restrict EditPad’s character to certain classes of characters, such as lowercase letters, so you’ll find the character you want much quicker. |
 | | Convert your text files from any encoding to any other one. The screen shot shows Japanese, English and Thai text encoded as UTF-8 Unicode. Conversion to the legacy Thai code page would lose the Japanese characters. |
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