Unicode Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Using Notepad as a Unicode Text Editor

∟Opening UTF-16BE Text Files

This section provides a tutorial example on how to open a UTF-16BE text file with Nodepad. But Notepad failed to open correctly the UTF-16BE text created by myself.

Now let's try to use Notepad to open the UTF-16BE text file, hello.utf-16be, created from the previous chapter.

1. Run Notepad and click menu File > Open. The open file dialog box comes up.

2. Select the hello.utf-16be text file and select the "Unicode big endian" option in the Encoding field. See the picture below:

Notepad Open UTF-16BE File
Notepad Open UTF-16BE File

3. Click the Open button. The UTF-16BE file opens in the editor incorrectly. See the picture below:

Notepad Edit UTF-16BE File
Notepad Edit UTF-16BE File

Very bad. This proves that Notepad can not open UTF-16BE text file created by myself.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Character Sets and Encodings

 ASCII Character Set and Encoding

 GB2312 Character Set and Encoding

 GB18030 Character Set and Encoding

 JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings

 Unicode Character Set

 UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format - 8-Bit)

 UTF-16, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE Encodings

 UTF-32, UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE Encodings

 Python Language and Unicode Characters

 Java Language and Unicode Characters

 Character Encoding in Java

 Character Set Encoding Maps

 Encoding Conversion Programs for Encoded Text Files

►Using Notepad as a Unicode Text Editor

 What Is Notepad

 Opening UTF-8 Text Files

►Opening UTF-16BE Text Files

 Opening UTF-16LE Text Files

 Saving Files in UTF-8 Option

 Byte Order Mark (BOM) - FEFF - EFBBBF

 Saving Files in "Unicode Big Endian" Option

 Saving Files in "Unicode" Option

 Supported Save and Open File Formats

 Using Microsoft Word as a Unicode Text Editor

 Using Microsoft Excel as a Unicode Text Editor

 Unicode Fonts

 Archived Tutorials

 References

 Full Version in PDF/EPUB