Stephan Stiller wrote:
Ideal would be an editor that gives me previews in an easy-to-use
encoding selection menu that in addition highlights fully or almost-
compatible encodings, highlights (after loading) positions in the file
that don't conform to the requested encoding (and lets me choose how
to handle them), and knows different versions of encodings.
I once tried an editor that had something like this, but it was
otherwise so unsuitable that I don't even remember its name any more.
As some codepages had minor additions or corrections in later
versions, it'd be useful to have an editor that offers the choice to
access earlier versions of encodings - this is clearly specialist
usage but the knowledge exists.
Most character sets change very little, at least in terms of repertoire,
and the changes are almost always limited to adding new characters. A
feature to access earlier versions of encodings would probably have only
the effect of disallowing characters that were added in later versions,
replacing them with question marks or U+001A. Even for character-set
wonks like us, it's hard to see that being useful in a practical sense.
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell
