Download Notepad++ 5.6

A new version of Notepad++ was released on Monday with the designation v5.6. Notepad++ is an extensive text editor with various features that are useful for programmers, such as syntax highlighting for C, C++, Java, html, xml and php, among others. Notepad++ also offers the possibility to edit multiple documents at the same time or even to maintain one document in two different places. New in this release is, among other things, the possibility to adjust the language code of the file to be edited. Below is the full changelog for this release:

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

• 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)
  • ISO_8859-1 to ISO_8859-16
  • and a lot of more.
• Add auto-detection of HTML and XML files encodings.
• Add COBOL, D, Gui4Cli, PowerShell and R language support.
• Add Marker Jumper feature (Jump down/up : Ctrl+Num/Ctrl+Shift+Num).
• Add indent guide line highlighting for html/xml tags.
• Add system tray context menu and new command argument “-systemtray”.
• Fix Unicode to ANSI encoding bug.
• Fix last recent file list menu items localization encoding bug.
• Fix last recent file number goes to zero issue.
• Add new command argument “–help”.
• Fix Calltip hint bug and add a new capacity in it.
• Add the ability to add the second keyword group for user in both LISP and Scheme languages.
• Fix the wrap symbol display problem.
• Add SQL ESC symbol ‘\’.
• Fix column editor insert number bug in virtual space mode.
• Fix status bar displaying “-2 char” issue for an empty document.
• Fix installation of NppShell64 failed issue in installer.

Included plugins (Unicode):

• TextFX v0.26
• NppExec v0.3.2
• Spell Checker v1.3.3
• MIME Tools v1.6
• NppExport v0.2.8
• NppNetNote v0.1
• Compare Plugin 1.5.5
• Plugin Manager 0.9.3.0

Included plugins (ANSI):

• TextFX v0.25
• NppExec v0.3.2
• Spell Checker v1.3.3
• MIME Tools v1.6
• NppExport v0.2.8
• Light Explorer v1.5
• NppNetNote v0.1
• Compare Plugin 1.5.5
• Plugin Manager 0.9.3.0