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I understand that Textpad does not have full Unicode support, that is fine.

But can I ask that Textpad atleast put the BOM (Byte Order Mark) when selecting Unicode in "Save As" -- so that if I create a text file with normal characters - and want to save it as type Unicode - that atleast it will not break conventions and that file won't cause problems with other programs and/or search indexers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

It should be rather easy to just append the BOM onto all files saved as Unicode to meet with standards. I am not asking for full Unicode support - just correctly do the BOM atleast. Thanks.

Select
Configure | Preferences | Document Classes | <Class> | Write Unicode and UTF-8 BOM
or
View | Document Properties | Preferences | Write Unicode and UTF-8 BOM

That checkbox solves what I needed and my files are being correctly detected and read by other programs now. Thanks.
(I would recommend this option should be checked by default).

This was timely as I had the same question this morning!

However, it may be better that the BOM option is independent for UTF-8 (where it is not recommended) and Unicode or UTF-16 (where it is generally more useful, though not required). I would refer to the same Wikipedia article.

Thanks.

--Peter