MadEdit

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MadEdit is an open source and cross-platform text and hex editor with excellent encoding support, regular expressions search and replace, syntax highlighting, multiple files, and other functions.

Following is the list of the key features:

MadEdit can run under Linux and Win32 platforms.
Edits files in Text, Column and Hex modes.
In Hex-Mode, MadEdit can open large files which size is up to 32GB.
User can change the encoding of files at runtime as Web-Browsers.
Supports many encodings, e.g. Unicode(UTF-8, UTF-16/32 with Little or Big Endian), Big5, GBK and S-JIS etc.
Supports Unicode CJK Ext-B.
If user inputs a character that is not supported by current encoding, this character will be converted to U+XXXX. Unicode format.
Regular Expressions search and replace.
Opens multiple files on single instance.
Supports syntax-highlighting of many programming languages, e.g. awk, DOS Batch Script, C/C++, diff/patch, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Pascal, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, UNIX Shell Script, x86 Assembly.
MadEdit can view ASCII-Art files under Win32 platform.