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.
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.
Even for character-set wonks like us, it's hard to see that being
useful in a practical sense.
Non-additive changes are rare, yes. Anyways, the main thing is that I
want to see the functionality and knowledge somewhere in a usable little
program; it doesn't necessarily have to be bundled into a texteditor
scenario.
Stephan
