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* [http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Notepad++] &ndash; an open source editor based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_%28editing_component%29 Scintilla].<ref>Scintilla does not properly support right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew. While text in these languages may appear correct, it is not possible to interact with this text as is normal with other editing components.</ref><ref>The XMLTools plugin facilitates checking XML syntax and validation, e.g. to an external schema such as for OSIS. XMLTools also has various options to "pretty print" and linarize (sic) the XML.</ref>  The [https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus source code] is now on Github.
 
* [http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Notepad++] &ndash; an open source editor based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_%28editing_component%29 Scintilla].<ref>Scintilla does not properly support right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew. While text in these languages may appear correct, it is not possible to interact with this text as is normal with other editing components.</ref><ref>The XMLTools plugin facilitates checking XML syntax and validation, e.g. to an external schema such as for OSIS. XMLTools also has various options to "pretty print" and linarize (sic) the XML.</ref>  The [https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus source code] is now on Github.
 
* [http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html BabelPad] &ndash; very powerful analysis & conversion tools available &ndash; can convert to & from NFD, NFC, NFKD & NFKC.<ref>BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing. BabelPad supports the latest version of Unicode, currently [http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/ Unicode 7.0]. BabelPad also supports [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Compression_Scheme_for_Unicode SCSU].</ref>
 
* [http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html BabelPad] &ndash; very powerful analysis & conversion tools available &ndash; can convert to & from NFD, NFC, NFKD & NFKC.<ref>BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing. BabelPad supports the latest version of Unicode, currently [http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode7.0.0/ Unicode 7.0]. BabelPad also supports [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Compression_Scheme_for_Unicode SCSU].</ref>
* [http://www.editpadlite.com/ EditPad Lite] &ndash; good for code page conversions
 
* [http://www.easy-key.info/ Easy-Key Edit] is an editor designed by [http://missionassist.org.uk/ MissionAssist] for their WEBBS project. <ref>Easy-Key Edit facilitates keyboarding of Latin character-set based Bible texts and conversion to & from Unicode, and the formatted display of USFM files thus edited. The edit panel is detachable, which makes it convenient to place anywhere in front of a scanned page while keyboarding a legacy document. It's designed only for a subset of USFM tags, and follows the old SIL Best Practice guide dated 2007. Some tags documented in USFM reference 2.4 are not recognized.</ref>
 
 
* SIL [http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=worldpaddownload WorldPad] &ndash; an application that can be used to demonstrate or experiment with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_%28SIL%29 Graphite] fonts.
 
* SIL [http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=worldpaddownload WorldPad] &ndash; an application that can be used to demonstrate or experiment with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_%28SIL%29 Graphite] fonts.
  

Revision as of 18:07, 10 January 2018

This page is to help new developers get started. It lists various Unicode compliant text editors that we have found useful for different operating systems. Inclusion here does not mean that we unequivocally endorse all aspects of the program.

Windows

  • Notepad++ – an open source editor based on Scintilla.[1][2] The source code is now on Github.
  • BabelPad – very powerful analysis & conversion tools available – can convert to & from NFD, NFC, NFKD & NFKC.[3]
  • SIL WorldPad – an application that can be used to demonstrate or experiment with Graphite fonts.

Notes:

  1. Scintilla does not properly support right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew. While text in these languages may appear correct, it is not possible to interact with this text as is normal with other editing components.
  2. The XMLTools plugin facilitates checking XML syntax and validation, e.g. to an external schema such as for OSIS. XMLTools also has various options to "pretty print" and linarize (sic) the XML.
  3. BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing. BabelPad supports the latest version of Unicode, currently Unicode 7.0. BabelPad also supports SCSU.

Multi OS

  • GNU Emacs – an extensible, customizable text editor—and more.
  • Gobby – a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.

Mac

Unix

Java

Runs on any operating system with a Java SE installed.

iOS

See also