John W Kennedy, Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:48:15 -0400: > On Jul 18, 2012, at 4:21 AM, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> On my OS X 10.7 computer, then TextEdit does sniff UTF-8 (without the >> BOM). > > It does indeed have a sniffing feature, though it also appears to use > the com.apple.TextEncoding extended attribute, when available (and > which it, itself, will create, when saving).
Ah, I see I was wrong about TextEdit on OS X 10.5, then: For UTF-8 files that it *itself* saves, then it does — despite the lack of a BOM - open them without defaulting to a legacy encoding. (Wonder if the the so called 'resource fork' - the meta data companion that OS X since version 10.6 abandoned - plays into this?) But if saved by some app (that probably doesn't add the extended TextEncoding attribute that you mention), then TextEdit for OS X 10.5 fails to open it as UTF-8. -- Leif Halvard Silli
