Hello,
I have read this page http://blog.macromates.com/2005/handling-encodings-utf-8/ and I use UTF8 wherever I can. But, sometimes I have to open czech text-files, made on MS Windows (not made by me), that are, almost without exception, in "Central European (Windows Latin)", or, Windows 1250 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1250 ).
ISO-8859-1 is different from Windows-1250, some of the czech letters appear weird - for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98 instead of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%98
Right now, when I get file like that, I need to 1) open it in TextMate, only to find out I cannot open it 2) open TextEdit, open the file in TextEdit, re-save it in UTF8 3) open it in TextMate again, swearing on all sides
I personally find this procedure stupid and I would love to have the opportunity to, at least, open the file in Windows-1250 and convert it to UTF8 and not having to start another text editor.
Karel Bilek
Am 27.04.2009 um 23:07 schrieb running:
ISO-8859-1 is different from Windows-1250, some of the czech letters appear weird - for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98 instead of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%98
Right now, when I get file like that, I need to
- open it in TextMate, only to find out I cannot open it
- open TextEdit, open the file in TextEdit, re-save it in UTF8
- open it in TextMate again, swearing on all sides
I personally find this procedure stupid and I would love to have the opportunity to, at least, open the file in Windows-1250 and convert it to UTF8 and not having to start another text editor.
Hello Karel,
i have to work with legacy frequently and agree it's annoying. If there's no chance to convince the supplier of these documents to switch to UTF-8, then u might google for a Bundle that was done by Hans-Jörg Bibiko to read/convert such files in one step. If i remember correctly, this bundle made use of the iconv-command, which is present on every osx. U could q&d roll your own 'drag-command' with iconv to import and convert in one step.
greets andreas
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