See Mined Design Principles for some further comments on the approach of making mined a useful editing tool.
See Overview of features for a more comprehensive listing of mined features.
with combining characters)
in either Unicode terminal or CJK terminal
Support for a variety of 8 bit encodings (mapped to Unicode)
(with combining characters for Vietnamese and Thai)
characters in the pick list being sorted by relevance of Unicode ranges
Han character information with description and pronunciation
transparent handling of UTF-16 encoded files
auto-detection)
and smart dashes
Print function that works in all text encodings