If I change open default encoding in TextEdit preferences the problem with Windows encoded files will be fixed, but then the problem will appear with files saved with Mac default encoding.
#Textwrangler for windows 8 for mac#
"Automatic" in Mac apps tends to mean "default" (not detection), which can result in MacRoman be used for Latin text, which generates the character differences you described in your first post.Īs for Mac Excel and Word, if they are not reading stuff made in Windows Office correctly, I think that is something MS will have to fix. If you set your open/save default in TextEdit Preferences to Latin-1 or UTF-8 you should be able to minimize the kind of problems you have described related to that app. What is next, and I keep the question open for that, is to find a way to do the same in all the oher applications that are presenting the issue: preview mode in FInder, Word, Excel and Stata. I will ask app developers for ways to customize -or at least to know- the text encoding used. Thanks for helping me finding part of the solution: I will convert every "problematic" file to UTF-8 encoding format, configure TextEdit and TextWrangler to save files as UTF-8 for Windows compatibility. However, the problem is still there with the remaining apps, for example: Mac Word and Excel. This successfully solves the problem for viewing and writting plain text files across Windows and Mac.
#Textwrangler for windows 8 code#
Only by indicating manually the code (ISO Latin-1) the file is displayed properly, so I check this option in the TextWrangler preference "If file's encoding can't be guessed, use". I installed TextWrangler and opened one of the files that TextEdit displayed wrongly, but even even TextWrangler fails to identify the original file encoding. I'd wish there it were that simple, or al least that a complex solution would be available for all this encoding problems, because some apps won't let me know which encoding they use or configure their file outputs in a different/custom encoding system.
0 kommentar(er)
