[vishnu]

There are a few nedit forks that claim to be unicode compliant, I've tried them and, to me at least, they all suck. I'm sure unicode has a useful purpose outside the world of ASCII, but if you're a programmer, you don't need it. As far as I know (and I really haven't looked), there's no compiler in the world that will compile anything other than ASCII. I get email from people with unicode and it's all just blips and tildes and numeric gifs. If you're speaking the English language, then just use ASCII! If you're speaking some other dialect, then fine, go ahead and use unicode, I won't be able to understand it anyway.