Akel Pad is a free and open source plain text editor program. It has interface views of single window mode (SDI) and multi window mode (MDI).
It has full support of Unicode strings on Unicode systems including Unicode codepages like: UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8. Other features include: file open preview, pseudographics correction, column text selection, multi-level undo, language modules support, remembers file codepage and caret position.