Best Text Editor for NLP

I have 开发者_运维知识库been working on NLP and using notepad++ for handling text files. It's good and some cases but problem is cant workout much with large scale files with lot of texts. VIM is not supporting UTF-8. Which one is the best text file handling editor with unicode support?

vim supports utf-8 -

:set enc=utf-8

Emacs, obviously.

Vi, more obviously.

The Zeus editor has support for UTF-8 and Unicode.

I am happy with Sublime Text 2. Crossplatform (Win, Linux, Mac), performs well with regular expressions find&replace, lightweight but rich on plugins. You should give it a try ;-)

Vim is, I guess, the best editor and offers following advantages:

• supports utf-8. If it isn't, add set enc=utf-8 to your .vimrc file to make it support utf-8 permanently. For supporting utf-8 in only the current session, do :set enc=utf-8
• It offers a lot of shortcuts hence makes the navigation very fast. It also helps to avoid redundancy by preceding any command with a number to repeat it that many number of times. (To add five times use 5p ) Hence, beating scalability is easy with vim.