December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
33h 22m
English
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Chapter 10: OSes, Text Editors, and Word Processors
BBEdit
Programmers and developers tend to prefer BBEdit due to its powerful features, of which
there are far too many to list here.
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It sucient to state that the latest version of BBEdit
supports Unicode, meaning that its multilingual support, at least from the CJKV perspec-
tive, is adequate. In terms of Unicode encoding forms, both UTF-8 and UTF-16 are fully
supported.
Jedit X
Jedit X is the Mac OS X version of a popular Japanese text editor that was originally called
Jedit.
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Jedit X provides useful editing facilities, and the ability to toggle between plain text
and rich text modes, along with import and export facilities for legacy encodings, such as
ISO-2022-JP, EUC-JP, and Shi-JIS. Of course, Jedit X supports Unicode. Its name sug-
gests that it is tailored for Japanese use.
Windows Text Editors
ere is an incredible number of CJKV-capable text editors available for Windows, and
unlike those for Mac OS X, many do not require underlying CJKV support in the OS,
though with the availability of Language Packs for Windows XP, and the broad multilin-
gual support in Windows Vista, this is less of a concern these days.
Popular Japanese-capable Windows text editors include Hidemaru Editor (
hidemaru edita),
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MIFES ( maifesu; a Linux version is also available),
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and
WZ Editor (a mobile version is also available). ...
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