> Would it reduce the confusion to just save as UTF-8 by default? As long > as TeX conversion is enabled, that should (usually) be fine for TeX > users who work with ASCII exclusively. I save my files as UTF-8 just to > avoid this problem, since the odd characters are almost exclusively in > abstracts which never get printed in TeX anyway. > > -- > adam
If UTF-8 transparently deals with gremlins and plain text but Western ASCII does not, it would seem to make sense to have UTF-8 the default format as you suggest. The other related issue is that after I do convert my file to UTF-8, I get an annoying little message whenever I start BibDesk that says, "The document will be opened with encoding Western (ASCII), but it was previously saved with encoding Unicode (UTF-8). You should cancel opening and then reopen with the correct encoding." I can see specifying a file format when I save (as), but why do I need to specify one when I open the document? I see that there's a conversion option when pasting and exporting text... What I'm suggesting would simply add that functionality to importing. Thanks! -c ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
