HexEditor for UNICODE characters

[kozlof]

Hello,
I am looking for a hex editor for creating language localizations that can display Unicode characters in a column of characters: Cyrilici, Chinese characters, etc.
I know that this is a matter of the OS, that for example on EN-US Windows, Cyrilice is usually displayed incorrectly, but Heaven Resource Tuner can do it.
So my question is: is there a hex editor that can do this?

[Ibrahim_Mihai]

Originally Posted by kozlof

Hello,
I am looking for a hex editor for creating language localizations that can display Unicode characters in a column of characters: Cyrilici, Chinese characters, etc.
I know that this is a matter of the OS, that for example on EN-US Windows, Cyrilice is usually displayed incorrectly, but Heaven Resource Tuner can do it.
So my question is: is there a hex editor that can do this?

Yes, several hex editors are designed specifically to handle multi-byte Unicode characters (like Cyrillic or Chinese) in their text representation columns, even on standard EN-US Windows systems.

For localization work, you should look for editors that support custom encodings and UTF-8/UTF-16 rendering directly in the text pane:

• wxMEdit: An improved version of MadEdit that is highly recommended for localization. It supports common encodings like UTF-8/16/32, GB18030, and Big5 not just in text mode, but also in Hex mode. It handles non-BMP Unicode characters such as CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) and Cyrillic natively.
• Hex Editor Neo: This professional-grade editor supports over 130 different encodings. It can display text in the pane according to a selected character encoding, including multi-byte Unicode sets like UTF-8 and UTF-16 (LE/BE).
• Super Unicode Editor (SUE): Positioned between a text editor and a hex editor, it specifically focuses on Unicode awareness. It can edit files in UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 with a "smart display" of Unicode codepoints.
• ImHex: A modern, open-source hex editor that allows you to load custom encoding files. While its default view is standard, you can import specific UTF-8 or localized encoding files to render characters correctly in the preview pane.
• UltraEdit: While primarily a text editor, its hex mode is robust and supports various character encodings for viewing and finding/replacing localized strings.

[blue_devil]

Doesn't 010editor handles unicode characters? Can you give a binary?

[DARKER]

Winhex has also support for some basic and a lot of various codepages. See picture.

[Jupiter]

Originally Posted by blue_devil

Doesn't 010editor handles unicode characters?

Yes, it does.

Menu View -> Character Set.


It supports many Character Sets.

List of Character Sets installed by default:

• ASCII - Standard character set for bytes 0 to 127.
• ASCII+ANSI - ASCII plus encoding Windows 1252 for bytes 128 to 255.
• ASCII+OEM - ASCII plus encoding CP437 for bytes 128 to 255.
• EBCDIC - Encoding EBCDIC 037.
• Unicode - Encoding UTF-16 and uses 2 bytes per character.
• UTF-8 - Encoding UTF-8 and uses 1 to 4 bytes per character.
• Macintosh - An older macintosh character set.
• Arabic (Windows) - Encoding Windows-1256.
• Arabic (ISO) - Encoding ISO-8859-6.
• Baltic (Windows) - Encoding Windows-1257.
• Baltic (ISO) - Encoding ISO-8859-13.
• Chinese (Simplified) - Encoding GB18030 and is compatible with GBK and GB2312.
• Chinese (Traditional) - Encoding Big5.
• Cyrillic (Windows) - Encoding Windows-1251.
• Cyrillic (KOI8-R) - Encoding KOI8-R.
• Cyrillic (KOI8-U) - Encoding KOI8-U.
• Cyrillic (ISO) - Encoding ISO-8859-5.
• Eastern Europe (Windows) - Encoding Windows-1250.
• Eastern Europe (ISO) - Encoding ISO-8859-2.
• Greek (Windows) - Encoding Windows-1253.
• Greek (ISO) - Encoding ISO-8859-7.
• Hebrew (Windows) - Encoding Windows-1255.
• Hebrew (ISO) - Encoding ISO-8859-8.
• Japanese (Shift_JIS) - Encoding Shift_JIS.
• Japanese (EUC-JP) - Encoding EUC-JP.
• Korean - Encoding EUC-KR.
• Thai - Encoding TIS-620.
• Turkish (Windows) - Encoding Windows-1254.
• Turkish (ISO) - Encoding ISO-8859-9.
• Vietnamese - Encoding Windows-1258.