more readable than a BOM you can use an encoding comment as far as I can see for your use case
eg as listed here https://www.texdev.net/2011/03/24/texworks-magic-comments/ On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 12:07, Taylor, P <[email protected]> wrote: > Two related questions, the second dependent on the answer to the first. > > 1. Is XeTeX happy with a BOM in UTF-8 files > 2. Could TeXworks be enhanced to (a) recognise, and (b) insert if > absent, a BOM in UTF-8 files ? > > The reason for my request is that while, on a day-to-day basis, I work > solely in UTF-8, I have a suite of legacy (ISO-8859-1) files on which I > need to continue to work. No matter whether I configure TeXworks to > operate by default in UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1, there invariably comes a time > when I open a file of the other type, make a change (without noticing that > some of the on-screen characters are wrong) and attempt to compile. At > that point, the file is saved with the wrong encoding, and unless I have an > archival copy, all is lost. > > Philip Taylor >
