On Jul 18, 2012, at 4:21 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > On my OS X 10.7 computer, then TextEdit does sniff UTF-8 (without the > BOM).
It does indeed have a sniffing feature, though it also appears to use the com.apple.TextEncoding extended attribute, when available (and which it, itself, will create, when saving). -- John W Kennedy If Bill Gates believes in "intelligent design", why can't he apply it to Windows?