Hi all, I received files from other users with BOM in UTF-8 ans UTF-16 and XeTeX correctly recognized them. Tested on Linux and Mac.
Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz st 10. 7. 2019 v 13:15 odesílatel David Carlisle <d.p.carli...@gmail.com> napsal: > > more readable than a BOM you can use an encoding comment as far as I can see > for your use case > > eg as listed here > > https://www.texdev.net/2011/03/24/texworks-magic-comments/ > > On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 12:07, Taylor, P <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: >> >> Two related questions, the second dependent on the answer to the first. >> >> Is XeTeX happy with a BOM in UTF-8 files >> Could TeXworks be enhanced to (a) recognise, and (b) insert if absent, a BOM >> in UTF-8 files ? >> >> The reason for my request is that while, on a day-to-day basis, I work >> solely in UTF-8, I have a suite of legacy (ISO-8859-1) files on which I need >> to continue to work. No matter whether I configure TeXworks to operate by >> default in UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1, there invariably comes a time when I open a >> file of the other type, make a change (without noticing that some of the >> on-screen characters are wrong) and attempt to compile. At that point, the >> file is saved with the wrong encoding, and unless I have an archival copy, >> all is lost. >> >> Philip Taylor
