character traits

[Raygereio]

Notepad works fine for certain EB files but not others. I can't remember exactly which ones are cool with it, but I do know that if you edit the wrong one with notepad and save you'll just get CTDs at the start.

Notepad works for all files; however if you have word wrap turned on (so that a really lone line is continued on the row below instead of making the screen really wide) and then save a file, I find that sometimes the longer lines are saved broken off like that, which causes CTD's.

That is, I think it has something to do with the word wrap function, I haven't tested it properly.

[bobbin]

Notepad is fine for editing most files like the export_descr_unit, export_descr_buildings, descr_model_battle and descr_stat txt files, it has never worked with me for export_descr_character_traits.txt so i use notepad++ for that (well actually i use it for everything as its a lot better that notepad)

From what I've heard the reason notepad doesn't work with all txt files has something to do with the way it handles unicode.

[V.T. Marvin]

I use Notepad++ too. However I noticed that it identifies EDCT as coded in ANSI...
I do not know a damn about various .txt files formats, could somebody clarify this issue a bit to the extent relevant to EB customizing/modding? Thanks.