Unicode Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes
Dr. Herong Yang, Version 5.00

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

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

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

Sections in This Chapter

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

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2009
Opening UTF-16BE Text Files