Text editor for Mac with UTF-8 encoding option

Posted by anothermike on Sunday February 07, 2010 @05:33PM
from the self-post dept.

I'm looking for a simple text editor for the Mac that non-technical users can use to save text files in UTF-8 encoding. Anyone have any ideas?

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Re:Text editor for Mac with UTF-8 encoding option by makecheck on Sunday February 07, 2010 @07:59PM (#1108610)

TextEdit, yes.

But I Googled "mac utf-8 editor" and found this page at the top: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/utilities_editors_macosx.htm...

There are a lot of them, and they didn't even mention "vim" (as long as your terminal supports UTF-8).

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Re:Text editor for Mac with UTF-8 encoding option by Someone on Sunday February 07, 2010 @05:36PM (#1108409)

What's wrong with TextEdit?

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Re:Text editor for Mac with UTF-8 encoding option by mcav on Sunday February 07, 2010 @05:51PM (#1108426)

TextEdit does this by default in Plain Text mode (under the Format menu). Screenshot of the save dialog: http://drp.ly/mms3Y

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Re:Text editor for Mac with UTF-8 encoding option by anothermike on Sunday February 07, 2010 @05:40PM (#1108412)

Our non-technical tester said that the Mac doesn't have UTF-8. I'm not on the Mac but I guess I'll have to check it out myself. Is this feature hard to find?

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Re:Text editor for Mac with UTF-8 encoding option by Someone on Sunday February 07, 2010 @05:36PM (#1108408)

What's wrong with TextEdit?

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Re:Text editor for Mac with UTF-8 encoding option by anothermike on Sunday February 07, 2010 @05:56PM (#1108433)

Found it. thanks

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