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Textedit dos not recognize text encoding

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Michaël Grünewald

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Dec 8, 2007, 3:01:45 AM12/8/07
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Hi,

I work a lot with files encoded in ISO8859-15. Textedit has an option
to automatically file charset at startup, despite I have activated
that option, Textedit still doesn't recognize encoding of these files.

Did anyone encoutered the same problem? How did you solve it?
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All the best,
Michaël

Király

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Dec 8, 2007, 5:47:14 PM12/8/07
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Yes, I have encountered similar problems with Leopard's TextEdit
and character sets, and don't know how to fix it.

$ echo é > ~/abc.txt
$ cat ~/abc.txt

é

So that works. But open ~/abc.txt with TextEdit, and I get:

È

Duh. Tiger's TextEdit was smarter. Post back if you discover a fix.

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K.

Lang may your lum reek.

nunojo...@gmail.com

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Dec 25, 2007, 11:25:41 AM12/25/07
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>Post back if you discover a fix.

Fix: http://nunojob.wordpress.com/2007/12/25/from-ubuntuwindows-to-mac-os-x-leopard/
It's for migration stuff from ubuntu linux to mac os x leopard. IF it
doesn't work just find out in what encoding is the file and then
transform it to UTF-8.

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