On 13. Oct 2004, at 12:50, Dominique PERETTI wrote:
- If you reopen in TextMate, it stills appear as UTF8... BUT if you
reopen it in BBEdit, it opens as a MacRoman file (with accents wrong).
I don't have BBEdit, but I think BBEdit _always_ opens as MacRoman. And you have to manually tell it to open it with the proper encoding (at least that was my experience when I tried it >2 years ago, both my iso-8859-1 and utf-8 files were all opened as MacRoman by BBEdit)!?!
My guess is that TextMate is right at encoding the characters, but forgots to write the BOM right. I think so because I get the same wrong results in FlashMX if I save the file as utf8-(no BOM) from BBEdit.
The BOM is optional in utf-8, and generally you _don't_ want it, since a) it makes no sense as there is no byte-order ambiguity, b) it rules the nice property of utf-8 being compatible with ascii, c) utf-8 encoding is really easy to recognize even without a BOM.
But if several programs only treat utf-8 properly when it has a BOM, I will consider adding an option -- though I would recommend against using it of course! ;)
Kind regards Allan