[TxMt] Re: unicode issue with QuickLook on Leopard

[Vincent Noel]

Hello,
I'm ashamed of answering to myself, but I thought maybe this had
slipped through the cracks.

Am I the only one with this issue, or am I doing something really
stupid and obvious?

The non-ability to display properly utf8 files saved from TextMate
using standard tools from the OS seems like a reasonable concern to
me...

Thanks
Cheers,
Vincent Noel


On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 20:10, Vincent Noel <vincent.noel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been seeing a weird issue with non-ASCII characters appearing
> messed up when QuickLooking a utf-8 file saved from TextMate. Here is
> a screenshot:
> http://vnoel.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/ql-bug.png
> The same problem appears when opening the file with TextEdit --
> non-ASCII characters are messed up. Unix tools (file, cat) show the
> file correctly. After digging around I found a thread [1] on the vim
> mailing list that says it is related to extended attributes that are
> set by TextEdit and that need to be present for QL to correctly
> recognize the utf8 encoding.
>
> If you set the extended attribute manually on the utf8 file, non-ASCII
> characters appear fine in QL. This looks like a bug in QL which, given
> its lack of publicity, is rarely triggered and probably due to
> something specific to my setup. I'm not sure what to do next, apart
> from applying 'xattr' to every text file I save with TextMate :-) Does
> anyone has advice ?
>
> I'm sorry if this issue has already been discussed previously on this
> list or elsewhere, but I couldn't find any other reference using
> Google.
>
> Thanks !
>
> [1] http://www.nabble.com/MacVim-file-encoding-and-Quicklook-td17289501.html
>
> Cheers,
> Vincent Noel
>