<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">well I tried with your string and it didn't happen for me, and when I checked with file it was ok... I would guess there is a problem with default encoding in text mate<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""> $ </span>file ~/Desktop/test1.txt </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">/Users/gplayer/Desktop/test1.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text, with no line terminators</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> $ file ~/Desktop/test1.txt </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">/Users/gplayer/Desktop/test1.txt: UTF-8 Unicode text</span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 3, 2018, at 1:22 PM, feek <<a href="mailto:feekdiv@gmail.com" class="">feekdiv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">some text with some special characters: é ü à</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>