Comparison of hex editors


The following is a comparison of notable hex editors.

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HxD8 EiBANSI, ASCII, OEM, EBCDIC, Macintosh
010 Editor8 EiBANSI, OEM, Unicode, UTF-8, EBCDIC, Custom
beye8 PiBANSI, EBCDIC, ASCII, Macintoshdata-sort-value="Yes" -
EmacsLimited by RAM
FlexHexUnlimitedANSI, OEM, UTF-16
HiewUnlimitedASCII, OEM, Unicode, customdata-sort-value="Yes" -
VEDITStandard, 2 GiB, Pro 64, unlimiteddata-sort-value="Partial" ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ASCII, custom
UltraEdit>4 GiBANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ASCII, Mac, Unix, UTF-8--
WinHexUnlimited support of these formats: ANSI, UNICODE, OEM, UTF-8/UTF-16, EBCDIC, ASCIIdata-sort-value="Yes" and replace
vimLimited by RAMASCII, ISO-8859, DOS, UTF-8, UTF-16, partial EBCDIC, unicode
ImHexUnlimitedANSI, OEM, Unicode, UTF-8, EBCDIC, Shift-JIS, Custom
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