On May 27, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Sune Foldager wrote:
On 27/05/2005, at 12.13, Zoltan Varady wrote:
I gave TextMate a try, I absolutely love it's feel. I'd definetly buy it, if only it would support more text encodings besides Unicode and iso-latin-1. Specifically, as a hungarian I'd need iso-latin-2 (iso-8859-2), but I assume there other people from other parts of the world with similar concerns, needing different encodings.
You and all others with non ascii needs (and even those), really should (IMHO of course) use utf-8, as it encompasses all existing encodings into a single universal one. This is also very strongly supported and used natively in many areas in OS X, as well as being TextMate's native encoding.
True. I don't contest that UTF-8 is the way for the future. However I have lots of old projects I'm still working on that use iso-8859-2. It has good browser support, while using UTF-8 as the encoding for my webpages often causes weirdness in some browsers - accented characters appearing in a different font from the other text, for example. We still need those options, and the fact that TextMate is limiting the choices doesn't make it any easier.
regards,
Zoltan.