Mac Applications
and how they do with
Unicode text
of the
HTML 4.0 special characters

I tried to open my Unicode test file in these Mac apps on 1999-02-22 and this is what I got. When I indicate that an app can't do Unicode at all, I mean that it opens the file and treats it as if it is a sequence of bytes, so it seems to look sort-of OK until you get to the characters whose high byte is not 0.

General Edit Lite, the only app I got anywhere with, isn't really a text editor. It's more like an interactive data dump program.

Unicode at all?	some correct	all correct	App	Version	URL	Email
Y	Y	-	General Edit Lite	1.0.1	http://www.quadrivio.com/products.html#QGELite	support@quadrivio.com
Y	Y	-	General Edit	1.0v2	http://www.quadrivio.com/products.html#QGE	support@quadrivio.com
-	-	-	SimpleText	1.4
Y	can't open	-	BBEdit	5.0.2	http://web.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit.html	support@barebones.com
-	-	-	Preditor	4.0b2	http://www.evatac.com/products/Preditor/	support@evatac.com
-	-	-	SimpleEdit	3.4.3b1	http://www.evatac.com/products/SimpleEdit/	support@evatac.com
-	-	-	Tex-Edit Plus	2.5.5	http://www.nearside.com/trans-tex/index.html	tom@nearside.com
-	-	-	Style	1.6	http://www.merzwaren.com/style/index.html	support@merzwaren.com
-	-	-	QuoEdit	0.46	[where did I find this?]
Can't open	-	-	SuperText	1.6b10	http://www.insomnimac.com/	postmaster@insomnimac.com
-	-	-	Alpha	7.1	http://alpha.olm.net	Pete Keleher <keleher@cs.umd.edu>
-	-	-	RealView	2.5.1	http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/pagemill/main.html	relview@kagi.com
Can't open	-	-	PageMill	3.0	http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/pagemill/main.html	[That would make it too easy to give feedback. ;-]
-	-	-	Netscape Communicator	4.5	http://www.netscape.com/download/?cp=hom02wbro	?
-	-	-	Internet Explorer	4.5	http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ie/	[That would make it too easy to give feedback. ;-]

I will make corrections to this table if informed of them.

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1999-02-22 Created
1999-10-10 Modified cosmetically