At 10:32 am +0900 15/10/02, Rick Davis wrote: >TextEdit seems to work nicely with RTF and Unicode (although I am >not a "power user"), but I've discovered a deficiency in opening >files. I have a whole bunch of text files in Big5 (Traditional >Chinese) encoding downloaded from Web pages. These are no problem >for Nisus Writer, which easily renders them when you force them into >a Traditional Chinese font. But for some reason TextEdit cannot >render them in Chinese, even when I choose Big5 encoding from the >Open... dialog, change to a Traditional Chinese font, etc. I always >get a screenful of garbage. > >So while at the outset TextEdit looks like a multilingual dream, it >stumbles on simple tasks like this.
I think you are trying to do things the wrong way. TextEdit behaves perfectly with Chinese in my experience. If you have a document in Big5 encoding, select Traditional Chinese in the 'Plain Text Encoding' popup in the open dialog of TextEdit and the file will display perfectly. What is even more amazing is that you can drag multi-lingual text from a Nisus window into a TextEdit window and it will not only be displayed properly but also be automatically converted to Unicode. I have just tried it with a mixture of Hebrew and Chinese. Make sure you have your TextEdit preferences set as you want them and beware of 'Automatic'. I Use Lucida Grande or Arial Unicode MS as my default font. JD --------------------------------------------------- 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]
