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Yes, Notepad++ handles UTF8 well, HOWEVER it also has it's own problems, such as its idiotic colour schemes and it's inability to do the block indentation move that TextPad handles so well. A text editor is a personal thing and I find that I like the way TextPad works, better than Notepad++. Sure ...

Ok, that works. Thanks Ben. :) And now I find that all files are loaded by default as UTF 8. Perhaps I simply needed to close TextPad and perhaps reboot Windows for the change to take effect... Perhaps this oversight could be fixed in a coming release, or at least documented so that others don't run ...

Ever tried to convert your web pages to UTF 8 with TextPad and found that it wouldn't work? TextPad 5 DOES work with UTF 8 but there is one hitch. You go ahead and set up your document preferences to save files as UTF 8 and you insert the standard: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html ...