That was it, Jim. Thanks!!! Once I unchecked "Send UTF-8 to Interpreter for Perl and Unix Scripts" in my "Unix Scripting" preferences, BBEdit stopped changing one byte to three.

The "Send UTF-8 ..." preference has been a big annoyance to me. When I would copy stuff off of the web, I would often get symbols I wanted to recognize in a regex. If the copied stuff were pasted into a file and BBEdit looked at the file via a Perl script, it would see things one way. But if the copied text were pasted directly into the script, below a __DATA__ or __END__ line, BBEdit would interpret things differently. Now, at least, BBEdit is consistent in the way it sees things.

On the other hand, perhaps I should change all my Mac Roman preferences to UTF-8 in BBEdit. Maybe BBEdit can be consistent that way too. Or is that too much to ask?

Regards,

Vic

At 10:10 PM -0500 1/11/04, Jim Correia wrote:
This can be controlled by the checkbox in the Unix Scripting prefs.

Jim


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