On 30/12/2005, at 14:29, Christian Alexander Mueller wrote: > Where is the solution I missed in the manual? http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/commands.html You can convert non-ASCII characters to numeric entities e.g. from Ruby: ruby -KU -pe 'gsub(/[^\x00-\x7F]/) { |m| "&##{m.unpack("U")};" }'