Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.

Notepad++ v5.6 new features and fixed bugs (from v5.5.1) :

1. Add languages encoding - Chinese traditional (BIG5), Chinese Simplified (GB2312), Japanese (Shift JIS), Korean (EUC), Thai (TIS-620), Hebrew (iso-8859-8), Hebrew (1255), Central European (1250), Cyrillic (1251), Cyrillic (KOI8-U), Cyrillic (KOI8-R), Cyrillic (Mac), Western European(1252), Greek (1253), Turkish(1254), Arabic (1256), Baltic (1257), Vietnamese (1258), ISO8859-1 to ISO8859-16 and a lot of more.
2. Add auto-detection of HTML and XML files encodings.
3. Add COBOL, D, Gui4Cli, PowerShell and R language support.
4. Add Marker Jumper feature (Jump down/up : Ctrl+Num/Ctrl+Shift+Num).
5. Add indent guide line highlighting for html/xml tags.
6. Add system tray context menu and new command argument "-systemtray".
7. Fix Unicode to ANSI encoding bug.
8. Fix last recent file list menu items localization encoding bug.
9. Fix last recent file number goes to zero issue.
10. Add new command argument "--help".
11. Fix Calltip hint bug and add a new capacity in it.
12. Add the ability to add the second keyword group for user in both LISP and Scheme languages.
13. Fix the wrap symbol display problem.
14. Add SQL ESC symbol ''.
15. Fix column editor insert number bug in virtual space mode.
16. Fix status bar displaying "-2 char" issue for a empty document.
17. Fix installation of NppShell64 failed issue in installer.

Included plugins (Unicode):

1. TextFX v0.26
2. NppExec v0.3.2
3. Spell Checker v1.3.3
4. MIME Tools v1.6
5. NppExport v0.2.8
6. NppNetNote v0.1
7. Compare Plugin 1.5.5
8. Plugin Manager 0.9.3.0

Included plugins (ANSI):

1. TextFX v0.25
2. NppExec v0.3.2
3. Spell Checker v1.3.3
4. MIME Tools v1.6
5. NppExport v0.2.8
6. Light Explorer v1.5
7. NppNetNote v0.1
8. Compare Plugin 1.5.5
9. Plugin Manager 0.9.3.0

Program Information Category: Tools and Utilities Type: Free Version: 5.6 Size: 3.4MB Works on: Windows Product page: here