Displaying Unicode in Notepad. If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that ...

If what you need is a programmer’s tool–if you are working mostly with PERL scripts or HTML–TED Notepad might not have all the features you want. Check out ConTEXT or NotePad++.

Edit documents in a notepad full of hotkeys, clipboards and innovative features. TED Notepad is a notepad replacement program that has a verystraightforward goal: to be a better notepad, not a ...

It has finally happened. Microsoft’s text editor Notepad just got a spellcheck feature, more than 40 years after the software launched in 1983. For the history buffs, Ronald Reagan was still ...

And Notepad defaults to margin settings that don’t accommodate a typical 80-column text file. If you want a quick hard copy of your plain text files, the formatting change may distract from ...

We all have to handle plain text files from time to time, and we know that printing files with the built-in Notepad applet in Windows should be called “pain text.” Fortunately, I’ve found a ...

In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has released a new version of Notepad that includes changes that bring it closer to what we have come to expect from modern text file editors.