Hi Jesse,

I have not implemented an override to ParagraphUnitStart at all.

Here is my complete class. Should have posted that right away anyway:

public class IslTextWriter : AbstractNativeFileWriter, INativeContentCycleAware
{
    IPersistentFileConversionProperties _conversionProperties;
    StreamWriter _targetFile = null;

    public void SetFileProperties(IFileProperties properties)
    {
        _conversionProperties = properties.FileConversionProperties;
        var utf8 = new Codepage(new UTF8Encoding(true));
        _conversionProperties.PreferredTargetEncoding = utf8;
    }

    public void EndOfInput()
    {
        _targetFile.Close();
        _targetFile.Dispose();
        _targetFile = null;
    }

    public void StartOfInput()
    {
        _targetFile = new StreamWriter(OutputProperties.OutputFilePath);
        _targetFile.Write("\xfeff");
    }

    public override void StructureTag(IStructureTagProperties tagInfo)
    {
        var sLine = tagInfo.TagContent;
        if (sLine.StartsWith("LanguageName") || sLine.StartsWith("LanguageID") || sLine.StartsWith("LanguageCodePage"))
        {
            _targetFile.WriteLine(sLine);
        }
        else
        {
            if (sLine.StartsWith("[") || sLine.StartsWith(";") || string.IsNullOrEmpty(sLine.Trim('\r', '\n')))
            {
                _targetFile.WriteLine(sLine);
            }
            else
            {
                _targetFile.Write(sLine + "=");
            }
        }
    }

    public override void Text(ITextProperties textInfo)
    {
        _targetFile.Write(textInfo.Text);
    }

    public override void InlineStartTag(IStartTagProperties tagInfo)
    {
        _targetFile.Write(tagInfo.TagContent);
    }

    public override void InlineEndTag(IEndTagProperties tagInfo)
    {
        _targetFile.Write(tagInfo.TagContent);
    }

    public override void InlinePlaceholderTag(IPlaceholderTagProperties tagInfo)
    {
        _targetFile.Write(tagInfo.TagContent);
    }

    //make sure a line break is inserted after each end of a segment
    //public override void SegmentEnd()
    //{
    //    _targetFile.WriteLine();
    //}
    public override void ParagraphUnitEnd()
    {
        _targetFile.WriteLine();
    }
}

As you can see, I have tried to set the encoding to UTF8 with BOM. Since this does not work directly, I am writing the BOM in StartOfInput().

It would be easily fixed if something like this existed (Pseudocode):

public override void SegmentEnd()
{
    if(this.LocationTracker.Equals(Location.EndOfParagraph))
        _targetFile.WriteLine();
}

P.S: Does this board have any kind of preview function before posting?