site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com TextWrangler will do the job. Its what I use. On 1-Feb-08, at 16:45 , Calvin Liu wrote: Hi, Sebastian, Any other ideas? Thanks. Calvin Hi, I tried this in a terminal on Mac OS X (10.4.11): # echo "some double-byte-characters" > U16.test # file U16.test U16: UTF-8 Unicode text _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/ajmas%40sympatico.ca _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Actually I tried. I didn't find that option in TextEdit for creating/ saving a file. But there is an option let you choose the encoding when you open a file. Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: --On 1. Februar 2008 13:03:11 -0800 Calvin Liu <koifans@shaw.ca> wrote: So I suppose Mac OS X, UTF-8 is default coding, then is there anyway to quickly create a UTF-16 file? TextEdit. For plain text you can choose the encodng and one of the options is UTF-16. This email sent to ajmas@sympatico.ca This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com