Unicode Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.32, by Herong Yang
Supported Save and Open File Formats
This section provides a quick summary on Notepad saving and opening Unicode files correctly with the BOM character prepended. But Notepad failed to open Unicode big endian files without the BOM character prepended.
Now we learned that Notepad saves Unicode text files in 3 encoding formats:
Notepad can open Unicode text files in 5 encoding formats,
Notepad can not open Unicode text files in UTF-16BE encoding format correctly.
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