[TxMt] Accented Characters (HTML) in TextMate

[Dan Sauve]

Hi all,

I'm new around here, so before I ask my first question I just thought  
I'd say... HI! :)

I recently built a bilingual (English/French) website using TextMate.  
This was the first bilingual site I've built using TextMate (I use to  
use Dreamweaver ... ack!). Everything went well, except for the  
content population phase -- when it came time to put the French copy  
in, any and all accents in French content (like à, è, etc.) would  
render as weird characters (or sometimes question marks) when the  
page was viewed in a browser. I just can't figure this out...

- I changed the "File Encoding" setting from UTF8 (TextMate default)  
to Latin 1 (Dreamweaver default). No dice.

- I checked my HTTP headers on the server side and all appears to be  
okay.

- I checked my XHTML meta tags and they're good too!

This seems to be happening with all files (HTML, ASP, PHP), and the  
weird thing is that I can open the ~same file~ in Dreamweaver, put  
the content in place, save it, and it works fine. Does anybody know  
what's going on? HTML entities work, but for text-heavy French sites  
it's not feasible to transform all of the accented characters into  
entities (time-wise).

Thanks in advance!

Dan