Sakura Editor is a

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Japanese text editor for

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History

Sakura Editor was started by Take (), the original author, around 1998 and the

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was made public around 2000. Development was carried out on

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until May 2018, then it was moved to

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in June of the same year.

Features

Sakura Editor uses

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color as the default background. It supports keyword highlighting, outline analysis, and completion. In addition, it has basic functions such as multiple

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, and macros. It notably supports handling documents with mixed line breaks. It also supports various character encodings such as

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, and

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. There are currently official

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and

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versions.

License

Since v2.4.0, it has been distributed under the

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References

External links

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