[TxMt] Textencoding problems renders scripts useless

Charley Tiggs lists at tiggs.net
Sun Mar 11 20:23:45 UTC 2007


Would the "Transliterate Word to ASCII" command in the Text bundle be 
what you're looking for?  I think it takes text that comes from word and 
converts the necessary chars to the ASCII equivalents (curly quotes to 
straight, etc).

Charley

Stefan wrote:
> no one?
> 
> Am 11.03.2007 um 18:34 schrieb Stefan:
> 
>> Hi list,
>>
>> generally, I use textmate to write source code for various languages
>> and systems. Everything works nicely.
>>
>> Textmate is set to use ISO-Latin1.
>>
>> From time to time, I need to copy text fragments from Word oder PDF 
>> documents
>> to PHP scripts. As soon save the file with the copied text, the 
>> encoding of textmate
>> document suddenly changes. All diacritical characters get converted to 
>> funny
>> chars. All in all, the resulting PHP isn't any longer useable.
>>
>> It took me some time to exactly figure out the reasons. But, I failed 
>> to solve it.
>>
>> Does someone has an idea regarding this?
>>
>> BTW: If I try this using Eclipse, the IDE reports a problem saving the 
>> file, since
>> the encoding changed. I have to start windows and copy the Word text 
>> fragments -
>> since Eclipse on Windows works just fine.
>>
>> An ideas?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Stefan




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