BabelPad text editor

BabelPad Unicode Text Editor is a free Windows supporter that properly renders even the most complex scripts, and allows you to specify different fonts for different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing. It also provides many useful features and special utilities, described below. BabelPad supports the latest version of the Unicode standard - Unicode 7.0.0 (released on 2014-05-16).

user interface

Exchange mode between edit mode and browser:
Edit mode allows documents of any size to be edited in plain text format.
Browser mode allows the current document to be viewed in an Internet Explorer browser window.
User interface menus and other text elements can be displayed in the following languages:
English
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Multiple instances of BabelPad can be tiled (horizontally, vertically or patchwork), cascaded, minimized, maximized, restored

Instructions for use:

(1) Open very large files quickly:

The biggest advantage of this software is that it can open very large texts quickly. After testing, it is faster than other text editors to open the 90MB "Chinese Dictionary_Baidu Cloud Share". Opening 5-10MB txt texts such as "Modern Chinese Dictionary" and "Kangxi Dictionary" is much faster than cnbook.

(2) Scroll browsing form:

The scroll browsing mode of this software is different from other text editors. Whether you drag the scroll bar with the pointer or scroll with the mouse wheel, it scrolls according to the actual beginning of the text line.

Other text editors display the lines in sequence after word wrapping.

(3) Basic settings:

1. In the "View" menu, check only "Show main toolbar" and "Show status bar".

2. Customization settings of the main toolbar:

The order is: ①F (Font) is located after the "Print" button, select "Comprehensive Font"; ② (Font) is gray and cannot be selected; ③ (Font Size) 16; ④ (Line Spacing) 1-1.5. Others do not move.

3. Click "Font Menu/Set Comprehensive Font", and in the pop-up "Set Comprehensive Font" dialog box, make settings for using display fonts. ①The setting method is exactly the same as "BabelMap character mapping table". ② You can also import the originally exported comprehensive font configuration file "CompositeFont.xml" to restore the original configuration. ③After the comprehensive font is set, the comprehensive font can be used when editing text and using the character map. Can display all visible characters in the "BabelMap character mapping table".

4. The user setting information is in the C drive operating system, and the comprehensive font setting configuration folder path is: C:Documents and SettingsAdministratorApplication DataBabelStoneBabelPad, but it is currently an empty folder.

Other custom settings configuration and open file history, the file directory location is not yet known.

(4) Can recognize all CJK characters.

1. In the editing area, position the cursor in front of a certain character. In the status bar, it will be displayed in sequence: ① the U+ code of the character; ② the Unicode name of the character; ③ the Chinese pinyin of the (Chinese) character.

2. After selecting the comprehensive font, the graphic text displayed by the "Symbola" font can be displayed in the editing area.

(5) Automatic identification of codes does not work:

1. Only "UTF-8" and "UTF-16" encoding can be automatically recognized. The "ANSI/OEM - Simplified Chinese GBK" encoding cannot be automatically recognized and needs to be selected manually.

2. Switch encoding: ① Click "File Menu/Reopen File", and reselect the encoding in the "Encoding" column at the bottom of the pop-up "Open File" dialog box. ②Encode the "ANSI/OEM - Simplified Chinese GBK" file and reopen the file/select to use "GB18030" to eliminate garbled characters.

3. If the source file is GBK and is edited by this software and saved directly, it will still be encoded in GBK. But when you reopen it with this software, it will still be garbled.

4. The "GB18030" encoded new file saved directly by this software is compatible with "GBK DOS", so when opened with cnbook, there will be no garbled characters (the "GB18030" converted by TP will be garbled when opened with cnbook).

(6) Automatic line wrapping:

The "Word Wrap" button in the toolbar is located too far back, making it inconvenient to use. You can check (or uncheck) "Layout Menu/Word Wrap" to set automatic word wrapping.

(7) Workspace (edit bar):

1. In the right-click menu of the workspace, there is all the content in the "Conversion Menu".​

2. In the right-click menu of the workspace, there are also: ① Repeat the previous word: Repeat the word in front of the cursor. ② Text reverse order: The selected text can be changed into reverse order.​

(8) "Find and Replace" dialog box:

Although this software does not have a regular expression tool, the "Find and Replace" dialog box is more powerful than the normal mode. Specific positions such as "beginning of line, end of line, beginning of word, end of word" can be defined.

(9) "Edit Menu/Batch Replacement":

1. The batch replacement function is strong. After testing, it is easy to execute a replacement table of more than 300,000 items.

(10) Built-in character mapping table:

1. Click "Tools Menu/Character Mapping Table" to call up the built-in character mapping table.

2. The operation method is exactly the same as the "BabelMap" character mapping table. If the configuration is reasonable, comprehensive fonts can be used.

(11) Conversion menu:

1. In the "Conversion Menu/Chinese", you can convert between Traditional and Simplified Chinese. This feature is powerful and fast.

2. In the "Conversion Menu/Chinese", Chinese characters can be converted into standard pinyin with tones, such as "女nǚ, 路lù", which are clearly divided.

3. In "Conversion Menu/Others", after selecting the text, you can "Delete Diacritical Marks" (i.e., the tone symbols of Chinese Pinyin).

①This function can be used to create thesaurus.

②The flaw of this function is that "ü and u" are not distinguished. For example, "女nǚ,路lù" will be converted into "女nu,路lu". Before executing this function, "ü" needs to be converted to "v" first.

Update log:

The latest BabelMapV7.0.0.3 character mapping table, a software work by British linguist Mr. Wei An. Contains data from the official version of Unicode 7.0.
Unicode 7.0 adds 2834 new characters, 23 new scripts, and many new symbols.
Major added characters include:
1. Two new currency symbols: the manat used by Azerbaijan and the ruble used by Russia and other countries.
2. Hieroglyphic symbols (including many emoticons), geometric symbols, arrows, decorations from Wingdings and Webdings.
3. 23 new scripts and old script extensions support the written languages ​​of the following countries: North America, China, India, other Asian countries, and Africa.
4. Alphabet used by Teuthonista and other transcription systems, and a new set of symbols, Duployan.
Other important updates in Unicode 7.0:
1. A major reorganization of core specifications for chapters and layout, and a new page size for easier viewing on e-readers and other mobile devices.
2. Updated Unicode bidirectional algorithm.
3. Further clarified the situation corresponding to the stable policy and the new stable policy for Numeric-Type.
4. Unihan has been significantly updated, adding nearly 3,000 Cantonese pronunciation entries.
5. Enhanced Indic script attributes, improved foundation, and more script interoperability display.

Comparison of new emoticons added in Unicode 7.0

(1) BabelMap 6.3 emoticons:

(2) BabelMap 7.0 emoticons:

File function

Open files encoded as :
Unicode: UTF-8
Unicode: UTF-16 (Big Endian or Little Endian)
Unicode: UTF-32 (Big Endian or Little Endian)
Unicode: UTF-7
Unicode : SCSU
Unicode: CESU-8
Unicode 1.0: UCS-2
Unicode 1.1:UCS-2
Unicode 1.1: UTF-7
ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) : Western European
ISO-8859-2 (Latin2) : Non-Cyrillic Central European
ISO-8859-3 (Latin3) : Esperanto, Galician, Maltese, Turkish
ISO-8859-4 (Latin4) : Baltic Rim
ISO-8859-5 (Cyrillic)
ISO-8859-6 (Arabic)
ISO-8859-7 (Greek)
ISO-8859-8 (Hebrew)
ISO-8859-9 (Latin5) : Improved Turkish
ISO-8859-10 (Latin6) : Inuit, Lappish
ISO-8859-11 (Thai)
ISO-8859-13 (Latin7) : Improved Baltic Rim
ISO-8859-14 (Latin8) : Celtic
ISO-8859-15 (Latin9, a.k.a. Latin0) : Improved Western European
ISO-8859-16 (Latin10) : South-Eastern European
Windows CP 874 (Thai)
Windows CP 932 (extension of Shift-JIS): Japanese
Windows CP 936 (extension of GB2312) : Simplified Chinese
Windows CP 949 (Unified Hangul Code) : Korean
Windows CP 950 (extension of Big5) : Traditional Chinese
Windows CP 1133 (Lao)
Windows CP 1250 (East European)
Windows CP 1251 (Cyrillic)
Windows CP 1252 (West European)
Windows CP 1253 (Greek)
Windows CP 1254 (Turkish)
Windows CP 1255 (Hebrew)
Windows CP 1256 (Arabic)
Windows CP 1257 (Baltic)
Windows CP 1258 (Vietnamese)
EUC-JA (Japanese)
EUC-KR (Korean)
GB18030 (Extended Chinese) : Unicode-mapped superset of GB2312
GB2312 (Simplified Chinese)
Big5 (Traditional Chinese)
Big5-HKSCS (Big5 plus Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set)
Shift-JIS (Japanese) (optionally converting DoCoMo/KDDI/SoftBank emoji extensions)
JIS X 0201 (Latin plus Katakana)
JIS X 0208 (Japanese)
KPS 9566-2003 (Korean [DPRK])
KSC 5601 (KS X 1001) (Korean)
Wansung (Korean)
Johab (Korean)
KOI8-R (Russian)
KOI8-U (Ukranian)
ARMSCII-8 (Armenian)
VISCII (Vietnamese)
VIQR (Vietnamese Quoted Readable)
TIS-620 (Thai)
Mulelao-1 (Lao)
TSCII (Tamil)
TAM (Tamil Monolingual)
TAB (Tamil Bilingual)
I.S. 434 (Ogham)
Autodetects Unicode encoding forms and character sets declared in HTML or XML documents.
Automatically convert CR/LF, CR, LF, Line Separator and Paragraph Separator characters.
Option to convert Numeric Character References (NCR) and/or Universal Character Names (UCN) to Unicode characters on Open.
Save the current document as :
Unicode : UTF-8 (with or without a Byte Order Mark)
Unicode : UTF-16 Big Endian or Little Endian (with or without a Byte Order Mark)
Unicode : UTF-32 Big Endian or Little Endian (with or without a Byte Order Mark)
GB18030 (with or without a Byte Order Mark)
ASCII with Hexadecimal Numeric Character Reference (NCR) substitution of non Basic Latin characters
ASCII with Decimal Numeric Character Reference (NCR) substitution of non Basic Latin characters
ASCII with Universal Character Name (UCN) substitution of non Basic Latin characters
ASCII with HTML Entity substitution of non Basic Latin characters
SCSU (Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode) [encoder/decoder code kindly supplied by Doug Ewell]
Save line breaks as CR/LF, LF, CR, or as Unicode Line Separator [U+2028] or Paragraph Separator characters [U+2029].

编辑功能

从左到右或从右到左(LTR)(RTL)页面布局。
自动换行模式或没有自动换行模式。
拖放编辑。
多个撤销/重做。
缩进和Unindent选定行文本使用选项卡和转变选项卡。
选择自动缩进文本作为你类型(用于编写代码)。
选择一个“单词”,通过双击导航中的“单词”通过左/右箭头(适用于大多数Unicode脚本)。
选择一行文本由左点击空白处(选择一个段落通过双击空白处)。