I have posted here before on the topic of encoding issues.
I still have problems with TextMate loading files as UTF8, although I have set latin1 as standard encoding in the prefs (I have disabled `use for existing files' though). This is particularly annoying since I have to manually save every file again just to check whether TextMate uses the correct encoding.
Thus I would propose to introduce a feature which sets the encoding globally for one project if the user wishes to. Just add a checkbox (one encoding for this project) and the same two options you have in the file save dialog box (encoding and linefeed). If a user still wants to create a file with a different encoding, he can still choose to do so in the file save dialog.
This feature would really help speed up my work since I *have to* use latin1 as standard encoding for LaTeX documents (it's what my co- workers use) and UTF8 for the webpages I create.
Thanks.
Max