Simon Wascher wrote:
> I use a freeware Mac editor called BBEdit Lite, which I use a lot for
> editing my abc files anyway, for doing this job.
Oh, I use BBEdit too, but I wasn't aware of that feature since it's
hidden in the preferences settings, rather than in the save dialogue as
in SaintEdit.
Phil Taylor wrote:
> You can do it in BarFly, but only one document at a time. In the replace
> dialog you can represent any character by means of a bullet mark (option-
> 8) followed by the numerical ascii value of that character.
That's certainly something that'll come useful sometimes, but such
manual editing of single files doesn't really solve the problem here.
The bullet mark might not always be option-8, btw. It depends on the
keyoard layout. It's option-shift-q in Danish, option-q in other
Scandinavian, option-� in German etc.
Jack Campin wrote:
...
> But the problem isn't with text processors,
> it's with brainless transfer agents that don't convert terminators in
> text files properly.
Absolutely right. This is definitely something that the file transfer
software ought to take care of.
John Walsh wrote:
> but I don't know
> that you can always blame the transfer agents for not picking it up.
That's right too. *Most* of them handle these things pretty well these
days. THe problem is those few who don't.
Paulo Eleuterio Tiburcio wrote:
> 1 ABC relies on line terminators as a meaningful unit of coding.
Yep, that might have been a mistake in the first place. But I guess it's
to late to do anything about it by now.
Paulo Eleuterio Tiburcio also wrote:
> 3 ABC software don't seem to be generally aware of platform
> specificities. They should take portability issues into account...
Since you can't rely on the transfer agents doing their job: definitely
yes. Which applications have problems with this?
Frank Nordberg
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