Unicode Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.32, by Herong Yang
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:
3. Click the Open button. The UTF-16BE file opens in the editor incorrectly. See the picture below:
Very bad. This proves that Notepad can not open UTF-16BE text file created by myself.
Table of Contents
ASCII Character Set and Encoding
GB2312 Character Set and Encoding
GB18030 Character Set and Encoding
JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings
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
Encoding Conversion Programs for Encoded Text Files
►Using Notepad as a Unicode Text Editor
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