At 12:24 08/10/27, James Gray wrote: >They sure could, yeah. Our policy for TextMate development has always >been that UTF-8 is king. We use it heavily and I'm sure some scripts >do contain multibyte characters in UTF-8. Wouldn't it be only these scripts (including those that contain \x escapes for UTF-8) that need the encoding indication at the top? (please note that literals with \u escapes are automatically UTF-8). Regards, Martin. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst / it.aoyama.ac.jp