On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 03:47:32PM -0500, The Tick wrote:
> On 3/29/2017 3:04 PM, Stephan Beal wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:52 PM, <[email protected]
> ><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >    Yes, change your text files to UTF-8 with BOM(unsure without BOM)
> >    and Fossil respects °, ±, ©, ®, special characters.
> >
> >
> >Actually, UTF8 does not typically use a BOM because byte order is
> >meaningless with UTF8 (the standard allows a BOM but does not require it).
> >
> >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
> >
> 
> I took my u.tcl file, removed the 'bom' and now both tclsh and wish work.
> 
> If I edit the file, of course the utf-8 copyright symbol is garbled.
> Furthermore, there is no way I can insert a utf-8 character.

About gvim and UTF-8 files without BOM, my vim is set with 
  set encoding=utf-8
  set fileencoding=utf-8

and everything works like a charm.

Also, If I edit a ascii file that doesn't contain any special character,
it remain ascii.

 <snip>

-- 
Martin G.
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