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if you must, use notepad for UTF-8.

I feel your pain. You'd thought notepad is at the bottom of the evolution chain of text editors, yet it supports unicode fully; still cannot fully comprehend why textpad which is supposed to be one of the most advanced text editors, does not support it.

it certainly helps... and i just wanted to point out that even with arial unicode ms font, textpad still only displays one code page at a time and renders the rest as ?'s.

@SteveH Thank you for the explanation, and from what you described, I think the key to the issue is whether for TextPad to save files in unicode or not. Am I correct to interpret it as despite the fact that TextPad Save dialog allows one to say a text file in or ASCII or ANSI or UTF-8, it does not ...

I just ran into the exact same problem. Having a text file containing various unicode characters, and Textpad displays them as ?'s. I am still confused about what ben josephs said about handling unicode "encoding" vs unicode "character set". I thought the purpose of having unicode is to eliminate ...