I generally only see that warning message when I open a binary file or
some other file with unix control characters in it...
Are you opening files that you expect to be plain-text? Also, check to
see if the file is UTF8 No-Bom or just UTF8. If the file is supposed
to have a BOM, sometimes BBEdit will show a few "funny characters" at
the beginning of the file. The BOM may be screwed up... change the
file format to UTF no-BOM and save. Then reopen the file and set it
back to have a BOM. I run into this sometimes when I save PHP files to
my Linux webserver and then edit directly from the server (though I
must admit that I'm just guessing as to what's happening due to what I
found fixes it ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark
On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Bruce Barrett wrote:
Hi All,
A marginal BBEdit question, if I may.
I'm opening a file that was generated by my program and
get greeted with the message:
Incorrectly formatted UTF-8
The UTF-8 file "...name here..." is damaged or incorrect;y
formatted; please proceed with caution.
(The file is megabytes long.)
It seems the BBEdit isn't going to give me a list of problems
with it, are there other tools & methods to start looking into
this?
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