Re: Text Encoding Convertions
Re: Text Encoding Convertions
- Subject: Re: Text Encoding Convertions
- From: "Jens Eliasson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2002 08:40:25 +0200
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> Hi,
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> Does anybody now how to handle text convertion using the encodings in
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> the
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> OS? If it's possible, is there an osax or some other way?
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> It is very nice with the fairly new data type "Unicode text", but to me
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> there's not really any use for it without the possibility to coerce to
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> and
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> from it using the existing engine for that in the OS. And now I need it
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> for a project.
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> I do know how to make scripts that do conversions, but that means making
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> my own tables etc. I don't want to do that when they allready exist,
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> first
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> because it seems stupid - besides the work and responsibility it
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> creates.
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> My question is especially regarding AppleScript in OS X.
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> Thanks for any help/
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> Jens Eliasson
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> <email@hidden>, www.tessla.se
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Dear Jens,
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I am sure you have already received many similar replies, but I would
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recommend Hideki Iimori's TEC OSAX. I use it dozens of times a day to
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convert between UTF8 and other encodings, and it is very reliable. It
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works on any Mac hardware or software, including OSX. The latest version
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is 1.3.2. You can download it from the following page on Iimori-san's
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site:
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http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~iimori/sw/TECOSAX.html
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Much of the page is in Japanese but the link "TEC OSAX Ver1.3.2 "
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downloads the .hqx file. The documentation in the package all seems to
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be in Japanese as well (strange, I think there used to be English docs
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too). But the scripting dictionary explanations, which are in English,
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should tell you all you need to know. If you need any help please ask
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me (or Iimori-san himself, of course).
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Best wishes,
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Jonathan Lewis
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Hitotsubashi University
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http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/
Thanks a lot Jonathan. This was exactly what I had in mind. A possibility
to list the availible encodings and the tools to convert between them.
Some of the "MIME-names" are a bit cryptic though.
I didn't get the "StyledText2Unicode" and the vs. command to work on my
first test, but I tried non-listed "X-MAC-ROMAN" (following the logics)
with TECConvertText and it worked perfectly.
Regards/
Jens Eliasson
<email@hidden>, www.tessla.se
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