The 2.0 release of GNU nano is a major leap forward in usability and features, building on the 1.3 branch. The following improvemens and features are available in version 2.0 include:
 

UTF-8 support. Improved color syntax highlighting. Copy text without cutting.. Verbatim input mode. Repeat last seach w/o confirmation (Meta-W)

Spell check/replace selected text only Indent marked text Move to beginning/end of paragraph Search within the file browser Mixed file format auto-conversion