[TxMt] Re: textmate Digest, Vol 29, Issue 70

[Mark Eli Kalderon]

On 21 Feb 2007, at 17:08, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

> On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Lawrence Goodman wrote:
>
>> Yes, I think the problem is encoding. Textmate uses UTF8 and  
>> perhaps Final Draft uses ASC II? Is there any way to work in TM in  
>> ASC II or perhaps there is some way to convert the file before I  
>> import it into Final Draft. Thanks.
>
> In the "save as" dialog you can select the encoding, as well as  
> what to do with line endings. Then you can ask Final Draft to open  
> the saved file directly, instead of using copy and paste. I don't  
> know if there is any way to specify the format of the copy thing,  
> that should be always utf-8 I would expect.
>
> But what I would recommend first is to see if Final Draft can be  
> set to use utf8. There isn't much reason for most programs to not  
> use utf8 in this day and age (hope I won't get flamed for that).
>
> Haris

I want to second Haris recommendation of using utf8. utf8 is a  
superset of ASCII so you should only be having problems if you are  
already using non-ASCII characters. (If the pasteboard works like  
pbcopy copied text is being treated as ASCII unless the file begins  
with and encapsulated postscript header or a rtf header.) Best, Mark