Unicode-aware text editor; suggestions?

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all,

   I really, really hope this doesn't become an emacs vs. vi thread... I 
don't want to use something that takes a religious convertion and weeks 
or study to use. :p

   I've been very happily using 'nedit' for my so-called coding for some 
time now, despite lacking a couple functions that would otherwise be 
"nice to have". The biggest feature I wish was there was a way to 
collapse blocks (like if/then, while/until, subroutines, etc). That 
isn't what brings me here though...

   I've started using unicode (french symbols and Japanese kana/kanji 
characters) in my program (I'm working on the translation code). I very 
quickly found that nedit will show anything other than ASCII as garbage. 
Gedit will display the characters but as often as not I get an error 
when trying to save files with international characters in it.

   I am hoping someone here might suggest a replacement text editor. The 
only key things I need are; line numbering, cursor position, unicode 
support and code highlighting (html/perl/javascript - preferably 
customizable). "Nice to have" would be the code block collapsing but 
I've lived without that until now so no biggy.

   I have a modest laptop, a P3 1GHz w/ 512MB RAM so nothing to fancy. I 
like a lot of screen real estate and most of the programs I've seen that 
are advertised as "programming" programs are very ... full. I like very 
minimal. I also don't like Gedit's behavior of creating a ~<file> file 
for each file I edit, even after I save the file... One of the key 
reasons I used nedit over gedit in fact.

   Any suggestion will be very much appreciated!

Madison

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