Yes, I think the problem is encoding. Textmate uses UTF8 and perhaps Final Draft uses ASC II? Is there any way to work in TM in ASC II or perhaps there is some way to convert the file before I import it into Final Draft. Thanks.
On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Lawrence Goodman wrote:
Yes, I think the problem is encoding. Textmate uses UTF8 and perhaps Final Draft uses ASC II? Is there any way to work in TM in ASC II or perhaps there is some way to convert the file before I import it into Final Draft. Thanks.
In the "save as" dialog you can select the encoding, as well as what to do with line endings. Then you can ask Final Draft to open the saved file directly, instead of using copy and paste. I don't know if there is any way to specify the format of the copy thing, that should be always utf-8 I would expect.
But what I would recommend first is to see if Final Draft can be set to use utf8. There isn't much reason for most programs to not use utf8 in this day and age (hope I won't get flamed for that).
Haris
On 21 Feb 2007, at 17:08, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Lawrence Goodman wrote:
Yes, I think the problem is encoding. Textmate uses UTF8 and perhaps Final Draft uses ASC II? Is there any way to work in TM in ASC II or perhaps there is some way to convert the file before I import it into Final Draft. Thanks.
In the "save as" dialog you can select the encoding, as well as what to do with line endings. Then you can ask Final Draft to open the saved file directly, instead of using copy and paste. I don't know if there is any way to specify the format of the copy thing, that should be always utf-8 I would expect.
But what I would recommend first is to see if Final Draft can be set to use utf8. There isn't much reason for most programs to not use utf8 in this day and age (hope I won't get flamed for that).
Haris
I want to second Haris recommendation of using utf8. utf8 is a superset of ASCII so you should only be having problems if you are already using non-ASCII characters. (If the pasteboard works like pbcopy copied text is being treated as ASCII unless the file begins with and encapsulated postscript header or a rtf header.) Best, Mark
On 21. Feb 2007, at 16:33, Lawrence Goodman wrote:
[...] perhaps there is some way to convert the file before I import it into Final Draft. Thanks.
If you press ⌃⌘T and enter ‘ascii’ you will see a Transliterate Word to ASCII (do a ⌘A first, to make it transliterate the entire document).
Though your problem happened while pasting into Final Draft? It really ought to handle that.
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