The day job requires two things of an editor, and historically UltraEdit was the only editor to achieve them. First, it needs to save UTF-8 files without leaving a BOM. Second, it needs to open UTF-8 files without any effort on my part. It appears that Notepadd++ has just added this second feature less than ten days ago.
I've really never been satisfied with the current alternative to UltraEdit that I've been using at work. Enough so that I still use HomeSite most of the time at home, a long dead program but the best front-end dev environment. The editor I've been using is PSPad. It's got multi-language color highlighting, but it is really flakey. It also has custom key commands for tags, etc., but you have to write them yourself in a raw text file, they don't always work, and they like to eat text. I keep hoping I'll find a program that fixes these problems, this might be it.
Jon, I'll run this through your UTF-8 encoding test files and let you know how it goes.
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