On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 11:05:46 +0000 "Taylor, P" <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote:
> Two related questions, the second dependent on the answer to the > first. > > 1. Is XeTeX happy with a BOM in UTF-8 files Nowadays, usage of BOM for UTF-8 is neither required nor recommended. > 2. 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. > Does it mean that when you setup texworks encoding to be UTF-8, and subsequently load an ISO-8859-1 file texworks doesn't recognize the proper encoding? I know it doesn't help you but vim, for instance, recognizes the encoding of a loaded file although I have configured the default encoding as UTF-8 -- Manfred
