Hi Nobumi > Do you mean you cannot open any Big5 file with TextEdit? -- Are all > the characters garbled? Or only a few of them?
Everything is garbled. > > There are many variants of "Traditional Chinese" encoding, and in the > "Customize Encoding List" panel that appears when you press the pop-up > menu "Plain Text Encoding" in Open file dialog in TextEdit, some of > them, at least, are listed. I activated and tried all the possible encodings. None worked. > This is certainly a bug -- a big bug! Did Apple test to open > Traditional Chinese files before releasing this TextEdit...? It certainly is serious, in my opinion. NW has always worked well in this regard, so I thought that TextEdit, with its large library of encodings, would find this an easy task. > The best solution that I could find so far is to convert the file with > Cyclone (from "Windows: Traditional Chinese (CP950)" to "Unicode: > Unicode 3.0: Default"). At my surprise, Cyclone can convert Big5-ETen > files without problem: even ETen characters seem to be converted > correctly. Then open the converted file with TE (Encoding: > "Automatic"), and "Make Rich Text" from the Format menu. > > You may perhaps try yourself. Yes, this works. But it's a shame we have to go through this extra step. I think I'll write a comment to Apple about this. > (*) Big5-ETen is an extended version of Big5, usually used in Windows > and IBM; I found web pages about it: Thanks for these references! ----------------------- Rick Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yin.or.jp/user/rdavis/ --------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/ To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive" in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
