Love TwistPad and want to make the switch, but one thing is preventing me. When I save a file in UTF-8 format, TwistPad automatically prepends the file with the Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM). Internet Explorer (even version 7) goes bananas when it encounters this character, so many text editors provide a user preference to disable saving with this mark. Possible?

Thanks for such a great editor!

Hi,

Thanks for your comments.

About the Unicode BOM, The way Twistpad was implemented was that any type of unicode would be recognized by this Byte order mark. If it's not on the file, Twistpad assumes it's an ANSI file.

At the moment there is now way to change this. To work with Unicode files, Twistpad always creates the BOM when saving, and recognizes that is a Unicode file when opening by checking the BOM.

Your concern is pertinent, since I've been testing IE with a Unicode HTML file created in Twistpad and it takes some time to display it.

I will consider this for future versions, but some changes are required to correctly load a Unicode file without BOM.

Thanks

André Santos
Carthago Software Support
http://www.carthagosoft.net