Hi,
I unsuccessfully searched the web site and the list archive, but I may have missed something.
I need to work for a client with humongous text files encoded in ISO-8859-1, with diacritical characters.
This is mostly OK, but I could not find a way to set the output window that TextMate opens to ISO-8859-1 encoding. This is a PITA.
I tried both Perl and Ruby and the issue is the same. For the sake of an example, save the following 6 lines (French composers) to a text file encoded in ISO-8859-1, named "test.txt":
Léo Delibes César Franck Gabriel Fauré Edgard Varèse Jean Françaix Henri Büsser
Now run the following Ruby program from TextMate:
file = File.open("test.txt", "r") file.each { |line| print line } file.close
In the output window, all diacritical chars are replaced by the dummy "white question mark within a black diamond".
This is despite having set the preferences to Latin 1.
Note that the same small Ruby program displays diacritical chars correctly when run from a terminal window (provided the said terminal window is set to ISO Latin 1 of course).
So my question is: is there a way to set the TextMate output window to ISO-8859-1? A workaround might be to redirect standard err and standard out to another window, already open, with ISO-8859-1 encoding. Is that possible?
I hope my request makes sense.
(Unfortunately, switching to UTF8 is not an option: input is almost 100GB ISO-8859-1, and so output needs be. A roundtrip to UTF8 would triple execution time, which is already too long as it is).
Many thanks,
Jean-Denis