title: Using unicode / utf-8 in programmers editors
body: <p>There are a lot of programmers editors that claim to support unicode / utf-8.  I've tried a number of them (UltraEdit, jedit, emedit) but none of them tell you how to actually enter unicode characters into a file.  Some of them tell you how to change the default file encoding to utf-8 or how to select a font that has good support for utf-8, but not how to enter utf-8 into a file using their editor.</p>
  
  <p>The Go language (and some others) support utf-8 and I like the idea of using the actual utf-8 symbols for variables instead of variables with names like omega.  I haven't found a programmers editor yet that actually allows you to do this, though.</p>
  
  <p>The only editor / word processor that I've found that lets you how to enter unicode is Microsoft Word.  Type the unicode and Alt+X and Word converts it.  To get the Greek letter omega type "03c9" followed by Alt+X.  UltraEdit will let you copy utf-8 from a web page into it, but their docs don't say how to actually enter utf-8 in a file, and their tech. support people don't know either.</p>
  
  <p>This should be simple, but seems to be completely undocumented.  Is there some key combination convention the lets you enter unicode into these editors that supposedly support unicode the way that Ctrl-F is widely used for search?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>