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A tabbed text editor. GPL-3.0-or-later: Pe: A text editor for BeOS. MIT: pluma: The default text editor of the MATE desktop environment for Linux. GPL-2.0-or-later: PolyEdit: Proprietary word processor and text editor. Proprietary: Programmer's File Editor (PFE) Freeware: PSPad: An editor for Microsoft Windows with various programming ...
Since the early days of computers, plain text was (once by necessity and now by convention) generally displayed using a monospace font, such that horizontal alignment and columnar formatting were sometimes done using whitespace characters. Rich text, on the other hand, may contain metadata, character formatting data (e.g. typeface, size, weight ...
Like old typewriters, plain base characters (white spaces, punctuation characters, symbols, digits, or letters) can be followed by one or more non-spacing symbols (usually diacritics, like accent marks modifying letters) to form a single printable character; but Unicode also provides a limited set of precomposed characters, i.e. characters that ...
A "manual" way of editing in an external GUI text editor is to use copy and paste.Some text editors do not support, or may not be set up to support, various special characters—Chinese characters, non-Latin letters, mathematical symbols, and so on—they are typically replaced with a character that renders as a square.
Primarily for compatibility with earlier character sets, Unicode contains a number of characters that compose super- and subscripts with other symbols. [1] In most fonts these render much better than attempts to construct these symbols from the above characters or by using markup.
Windows Glyph List 4, or more commonly WGL4 for short, also known as the Pan-European character set, is a character repertoire on Microsoft operating systems comprising 657 Unicode characters, two of them for private use.
Support for Unicode was made due to text handling changes in Microsoft Word – Microsoft Word 97 is a partially Unicode-enabled application and it handles text using the 16-bit Unicode character encoding scheme. [25] Microsoft Word 2000 and later versions are Unicode-enabled applications that handle text using the 16-bit Unicode character ...
«FUNCTION» BYTE-LENGTH(string) number of characters and number of bytes, respectively COBOL: string length string: a decimal string giving the number of characters Tcl: ≢ string: APL: string.len() Number of bytes Rust [30] string.chars().count() Number of Unicode code points Rust [31]