[TextMate] Encoding glitch?

[Michael Gregoire]

I've been trying out TextMate to decide whether it's worth purchasing. 
One thing has happened twice when writing php with it. My best guess is 
that it's an encoding problem of some sort. For some reason when I 
create new document in TextMate SOMETIMES php refuses to parse the 
document at all, in fact even if I try inserting some test html code, 
it also doesn't parse. What I end up with in the browser is an empty 
page. Viewing the source reveals this to be so. I've tried reopening 
the document with new encoding from the file menu... I've also reverted 
to trying to convert the encoding in bbedit and yet it still doesn't 
load in the browser. This only happens sometimes. Other times, there 
are no problems with the php file. I've combed through the faulty files 
for script errors and debugged the code thoroughly, it isn't a problem 
with the code. So far I haven't been able to pinpoint what the 
difference is between the files that have no problems and the faulty 
ones. The ONLY solution was completely writing the exact same code in a 
new document in bbedit.

I want desperately to leave bbedit for textmate, but this issue is a 
major bump in the road for me. Anybody else have a similar problem? Any 
suggestions? Maybe something I'm missing?

Thanks

Mike