BabelPad is a Unicode text editor that supports the proper rendering of most complex scripts, and allows you to assign different fonts to different scripts in order to facilitate multi-script text editing.

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 : 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)
· JIS X 0201 (Latin plus Katakana)
· JIS X 0208 (Japanese)
· 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
· Left-To-Right (LTR) or Right-To-Left (RTL) page layout.
· Line Wrap mode or No Line Wrap mode.
· Drag and Drop editing.
· Multiple Undo/Redo.
· Indent and Unindent selected lines of text using TAB and Shift-TAB.
· Option to Auto-Indent text as you type (useful for writing code).
· Select a "word" by double-clicking and navigate by "word" by means of the left/right arrows (works for most Unicode scripts).
· Select a line of text by left-clicking in the margin (select a paragraph by double-clicking in the margin).
· Find and Replace functions.
· Select default font and font size from dropdown list on the toolbar.
· Configure individual Unicode blocks to always use a particular font regardless of which font is currently selected for default display.
· Status Bar displays codepoint and Unicode name of the character at the current caret position.
· For CJK ideographs the status bar also displays the Mandarin, Korean or Vietnamese reading for the character at the current caret position (choice of reading is user-selectable).
· Able to open and edit very large (multi-megabyte) files with little degredation in performance.
· Standard printing functionality enabled.