Working with Special Characters and Encoding
While regular characters make up the English and European alphabets and the corresponding basic set of figures and symbols, there are many other special characters that belong to various other language representations, such as Arabic, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, or Korean. Oxygen JSON Editor provides support for special characters in various ways:
- Opening and Saving Documents
- The Unicode standard provides support for all the character symbols in all known languages andOxygen JSON Editor provides support for all Unicode characters. There are various encoding options and features to help determine how to handle documents with unsupported characters.
- Fonts
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Oxygen JSON Editor provides the ability to choose the fonts to be used in the various editing modes. In some cases, changing the font may be a solution when special characters are not rendered as expected.
For special characters that are not included in any of the default fonts, Oxygen JSON Editor tries to find that symbol in a fallback font.Tip: For documents written in languages that use special characters (such as Japanese or Chinese), change the font to one that supports the specific characters (a Unicode font). For the Windows platform, Arial Unicode MS or MS Gothic is recommended. To change the font in Oxygen JSON Editor, open the Preferences dialog box , go to . You can select a font for each editing mode in this preferences page. - Navigation and Layout
- Oxygen JSON Editor supports bidirectional text, such as Arabic, Hebrew, and certain Asian languages, or other special characters that are combined into a single glyph.