[OS X TeX] Input encoding question

[Nathan Paxton]

	I don't think it's hard on TexShop, just a matter of doing a Save  
As..., and then changing the encoding in the dialog box there.

	I just caught up on all the postings from overnight (my time zone, at  
least), and I especially enjoyed Dick Koch's super-explanatory and  
thorough explanation of what's going on. That helped quite a lot. I'm  
still not entirely sure why *I* might prefer one encoding to another,  
but at least I understand some of the Latex on Mac reasons for one  
over another.

	For the time being, at least, I will stick with the Apple Mac  
encoding (since I figure there's SOME thought behind TS's defaults)  
and declare it with the \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc} declaration.  
Then, on those occasions when I switch over to Textmate for a while  
(as many of us move back and forth in editors, it seems), I'll just  
try to remember not to save in UTF-8, which is TM's default.

	Thanks for all the illumination, everyone.

Best,
-Nathan
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Nathan A. Paxton
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Dept. of Government, Harvard University

Resident Tutor
John Winthrop House, Harvard University

napaxton AT fas DOT harvard DOT edu
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On 19 Feb 2009, at 11:55 PM, Axel E. Retif wrote:

> On  19 Feb, 2009, at 22:38, Nathan Paxton wrote:
>
>> 	If that's the case (which I don't doubt), then will TexShop ever  
>> move to UTF 8 as its default encoding? Is there a reason that it  
>> retains applemac as its default?
>
> Good question. I think Richard Koch will tell us soon.
>
> Also, if you're interested, BBEdit and its free sibling,  
> TextWrangler, do easily change documents from one encoding to another:
>
> http://www.barebones.com/products/
>
> Best,
>
> Axel
>
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