BabelPad is a free Unicode text editor for Windows 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. It also provides many useful features and special utilities for processing Unicode text. BabelPad supports the most recent version of the Unicode Standard

Features

  • Open files in a wide variety of Unicode or legacy encodings; save files in any Unicode encoding (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) or Unicode-compatible encoding (GB18030), or as ASCII text with escaped Unicode characters.
  • Able to open and edit very large (multi-megabyte) files.
  • Standard edit functionality, including drag-and-drop editing, multiple undo/redo, find and replace, and casing functions (for all casing scripts in Unicode).
  • Left-To-Right (LTR) or Right-To-Left (RTL) page layout; and support for bidirectional text.
  • Render text with either a single font or a user-defined composite font (where you can define which font to use for each Unicode block).
  • Render complex Unicode scripts using Microsoft's Uniscribe rendering engine or Universal Shaping Engine (for Windows 10).
  • Option to render all Unicode characters as individual spacing glyphs (i.e. with no shaping or joining of complex text).
  • Option to display text in different colours for different Unicode-defined scripts.
  • Convert Unicode text to/from a variety of escape codes (including converting to/from Unicode character names).
  • Convert between Unicode characters and code points by pressing Alt-X after a character or at the end of a code point.
  • Apply Unicode normalization (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD) to text.
  • Convert Chinese text between traditional and simplified character forms.
  • Convert Chinese text to Mandarin pinyin readings.
  • Convert Japanese text between old and new character forms.
  • Convert between Vietnamese alphabet and VIQR.
  • Convert Extended Wylie Tibetan transliteration into Unicode Tibetan characters.
  • Convert between Yi (Nuosu) romanization and Unicode syllables.
  • Sort text according to the Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA) or the CLDR Collation Algorithm.
  • Manipulate delimited columns of text (reorder, cut, copy, paste and sort columns delimited by tabs or any user-specified character or string).
  • Transcode from one list of characters or code points to another list of characters or code points
  • Batch replace one list of text strings with another list of text strings
  • Advanced character search utility which allows you to find all Unicode characters that match specified criteria.
  • Character Map utility to find and enter any Unicode character.
  • Supports user-defined custom keyboard layouts and text input methods (file format).
  • Character lookup tools for finding Han (CJKV) characters by radical/stroke or by Mandarin or Cantonese readings.
  • Character lookup tool for finding Yi (Nuosu) characters by radical/stroke.
  • Character lookup tool for finding Tangut characters by reference code.
  • Various tools providing detailed information about Unicode versions, scripts, planes, blocks.
  • Emoji data tool that lists data about all Unicode-defined emoji, and select single or composite emoji.
  • Show all Unicode properties for the character at the current cursor position.
  • Show additional non-Unicode data for Han (CJKV), Tangut and Egyptian Hieroglyph characters.
  • Unicode code point and character name of character at the current cursor position is displayed on the status bar, with additional information for Han (CJKV) and Tangut characters.

What's New

  • Updated Unicode data for Unicode 15.1.0 data.
  • Updated Emoji data for Emoji 15.1.
  • Updated for CLDR 43.
  • No longer supports bitmap fonts.
  • Added the ability to split the current document into multiple files based on line ranges or keywords ("Split Document..." from the File menu).
  • The OpenType Test Framework now supports positional forms for scripts with joining behaviour, such as Arabic and Mongolian.
  • Added F6 shortcut for the OpenType Test Framework.
  • Selecting text now shows the number of selected lines or characters on the second panel of the status bar instead of the the character at the current caret position: selecting text within a single line shows the number of characters selected; selecting text over two or more lines shows the number of whole or partial lines selected. Dragging selected text shows the number of selected lines of characters when the mouse is within the selection, and the caret position (i.e. the drop position) when the mouse is outside the selection.
  • Fixed defect in detecting an html charset declaration when autodetecting the character set of an html file.
  • Fixed auto-indent which was entirely not working.
  • Status bar option to show CJK and Tangut source references now split into two separate options.
  • Various minor bug fixes and enhancements.