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Recommendations for a free PHP editor that supports Unicode

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:30 am
by voltrader
I've been using PHP Designer 2005 for about a year. It has a nice UI, comes in a small footprint, is free, and did all that I needed, except it doesn't seem to display unicode correctly.

Can anyone recommend another free or cheap editor that has a unicode display option?

I'm currently using notepad for unicode code, and it can get a little mind-numbing.

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:28 pm
by feyd
phpDesigner 2006 has unicode support, however not entirely complete..

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 9:39 pm
by Gambler
Uh... JEdit?

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:23 pm
by m3mn0n
Be sure to check out the Editor thread in the General forum section.

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 11:14 pm
by voltrader
Thanks -- will do.

I'm guessing the "Uh... JEdit?" question to my question means that JEdit supports unicode and I should've known about it.

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:01 am
by AKA Panama Jack
Well, if you want one of the slowest editors known to man then you can use jEdit.

It is written completely in Java and its slow, especially when you are working on large software packages.

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:46 am
by Ambush Commander
viewtopic.php?t=41009

(took me a bit of digging to find it)

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:32 am
by voltrader
Excellent -- thanks folks.

And the link is much appreciated Ambush Commander.

It looks like notepad - gah! - is the editor of choice for utf-8.

What is "BOM"?

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:42 am
by Ambush Commander
BOM = Byte Order Mark. In most discussion regarding UTF-8, it is an abomination that must be eliminated. It is important for UTF-16 though. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040 ... c-guessing is a bit useful for recognizing BOMs (even though it is not normative).

Personally, the actual PHP files shouldn't have any special characters in them. It indicates and internationalization attempt, and that's best factored into it's own set of files.

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 2:37 pm
by BMN

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:40 pm
by voltrader
Thanks!

This is certainly an upgrade to notepad -- foreign characters at least appear as boxes.

I also see a greyed-out "UTF-8 without BOM", so that satisfies one of Ambush Commander's criteria.

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:46 pm
by Ree
Editplus is a great editor with code completion and unicode support. You should really check it out.

http://www.editplus.com/

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:56 pm
by voltrader
Ree wrote:Editplus is a great editor with code completion and unicode support. You should really check it out.

http://www.editplus.com/
Thanks ree -- in this case, it looks like you really do get what you pay for. I'll give it a try.

Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 4:44 pm
by Gambler
Well, if you want one of the slowest editors known to man then you can use jEdit.
Java 1.5 + 512MB of ram + JEdit = fast.