When I use Quick Look in the Finder on a text file, it'll inevitably render garbled because it treats it as MacRoman.
Can I do something to make it always use UTF-8, or, even better, be ever so slightly smart about encoding detection?
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Maybe not all my text files are UTF-8. But I'm damn sure not a single one is MacRoman. Some people at Apple are still using OS 9 I guess.
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Best Answer
It's a file attribute problem. See here, at the end, two links explaining it: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1479441&tstart=120
Basically, if you execute this:
xattr -w com.apple.TextEncoding 'UTF-8;134217984' yourfile.txtyour file will appear correctly in QuickLook.In my opinion it has to do more with the editor and the way it saves the file than with QuickLook.