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I'm switching to MAC and am having trouble finding a text editor for HTML that deals with character encoding other than UTF-8. I searched the forum and did find several HTML or Text editors that look very interesting and capable, but digging deep into the features I haven't found one that can convert character encoding. On Windows I used Notepad++ and sometimes PSPad, but neither has a Mac version. I have read that it is possible to use Notepad++ with Wine or DarWine, but can't find details of how that works. I downloaded Wine but haven't figured it out. I don't mind converting my sites to UTF-8, but when I have tried in TextEdit and TextWrangler, they open and save in utf-8, but don't actually convert the character encoding, it produces a mess. It does not convert from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8, it just saves the existing text as UTF-8. If it was a page or two I would just start over, but there are thousands of pages that need editing from time to time. Has anyone here gone through this mess before?