I'm puzzled by BBEdit's choice of text encoding for existing files.

I was reviewing a Ruby source file that was created by another editor,
which I believe created the file as UTF-8, no BOM. When I opened it in
BBEdit, the encoding shown was Western (Mac OS Roman). I don't want
this — if I add a bullet, for instance, I want it to be encoded as
Ruby expects it (UTF-8, right?), and not as MacRoman.

However, when I look at the Text Encodings panel of the BBEdit
Preferences window, the "If file's encoding can't be guessed, use:"
pop-up does not offer UTF-8/no BOM, as an option. The only Unicode
options are UTF-16, big or little, no BOM.

Something's wrong, am I right? How do I fix it?

BBEdit 9.2 (2526), close-to-virgin preferences on a freshly-installed
OS.

— F



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