Text encoding

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Text encoding

When saving file as Unicode using Windows Notepad, the format shown is "Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data, with CRLF, CR line terminators".

When saving file as UTF16 in Tiger Text Edit, the default format is "Big-endian UTF-16 Unicode character data". While I specifically save it as UTF16LE, the description I got from the unix command "file" is "Data".

My question is whether/how I can save the file in the same encoding as Windows Notepad did?

Posted on Sep 25, 2005 3:45 AM

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Answer 1

Tom Gewecke

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Sep 25, 2005 4:10 AM in response to Yuet

whether/how I can save the file in the same encoding as Windows Notepad did?

UTF16LE is the same "encoding" on both platforms. If other things like line terminators cause operational problems for you, you might need to use a different text editor that allows you to adjust these to suit your preferences. You might want to try TextWrangler and see if it does what you need.

http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml

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Yuet Author

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Sep 25, 2005 5:04 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Hi Tom, many thanks! TextWrangler solved the problem.

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