Hello,
I've been seeing a weird issue with non-ASCII characters appearing messed up when QuickLooking a utf-8 file saved from TextMate. Here is a screenshot: http://vnoel.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/ql-bug.png The same problem appears when opening the file with TextEdit -- non-ASCII characters are messed up. Unix tools (file, cat) show the file correctly. After digging around I found a thread [1] on the vim mailing list that says it is related to extended attributes that are set by TextEdit and that need to be present for QL to correctly recognize the utf8 encoding.
If you set the extended attribute manually on the utf8 file, non-ASCII characters appear fine in QL. This looks like a bug in QL which, given its lack of publicity, is rarely triggered and probably due to something specific to my setup. I'm not sure what to do next, apart from applying 'xattr' to every text file I save with TextMate :-) Does anyone has advice ?
I'm sorry if this issue has already been discussed previously on this list or elsewhere, but I couldn't find any other reference using Google.
Thanks !
[1] http://www.nabble.com/MacVim-file-encoding-and-Quicklook-td17289501.html
Cheers, Vincent Noel