I do not quite understand how BBEdit handles character sets.

Since I live in Sweden, I often work with texts in ISO
Latin 1 containing the character ä and ö, these characters
are also used in other languages, for example German.

The characters ä and ö have different value in Mac Roman
and ISO Latin 1. In spite of this, when I open a file which
is in either Mac Roman or ISO Latin 1, BBEdit will display
these characters correctly on the screen.

Question 1: Does BBEdit have any automagic method of
"guessing" the character set in a file. Since without
knowing if a file is ISO Latin 1 or Mac Roman, BBEdit would
not be able to display ä and ö correctly.

Question 2: BBEdit seems to store somewhere its own
knowledge about a file, used for example when I open a file
and get to the same position in a file when I last visited
it. Where is this information stored by BBEdit, and what is
stored there?

Question 3: Does BBEdit have commands or plugin to do the
following kinds of conversions:

(a) All line breaks from CR or CRLF to LF.

(b) MacRoman to ISO Latin 1 and the reverse.

(c) HTML entities (like ä for ä) to Mac Roman, to ISO
Latin 1, and the reverse.

(d) Can I define macros, saying that with one single
command I want to both translate
8-bit chracters to HTML entities and CR or CRLF to LF.

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Jacob Palme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Stockholm University and KTH)
for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/

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