Controlling Unicode Encoding

Harvey Greenberg summarizes hints from Eliot Kimber Last Updated: 2008-08-23

Don't know if this is general knowledge or if anyone cares, but if you want to control Unicode encoding in Arbortext, you can display the command window at enter, for example:

write -encoding UTF-16 c:\temp\myutf16file.xml

Arbortext writes encoding="UTF-16" into the XML declaration and also (equally if not more important) writes the file as UTF-16.

(Editors note: in another post, he replies to Eliot on tools to tell if the encoding is what it says it is:)

SC UniPad looks to be an excellent tool. I was previously able to see various encodings using TextPad in binary mode, and I also have EditPad (another good tool) on one of my machines that allowed me to do some conversions. The UniPad interface is clear, easy to use, and unambiguous. Thanks.