I recently switched to macOS and encountered a strange thing: some file names in Hebrew would become corrupt. Most characters would appear as 'x', with some letters showing up as random characters. This applies to file names as well as content inside those files.
I would very much appreciate any help on how to resolve this.
I've included screenshots showcasing what I'm experiencing.
You are showing a powerpoint file. Do you have this problem with any other kinds of files? If so, what kind?
Do you see this problem in the MacOS Finder or only in the powerpoint app?
Can you provide a link to a file which shows this problem so we can try to duplicate it?
The file I see when I go to your link has the x's and not Hebrew in its name. When you go to that link, do you see it differently?
Missing fonts should not cause this kind of problem if everything is being done in Unicode Hebrew, which has been the standard for quite a long time now. The letters should still be there and readable but the font would not be what the author chose.
I don't know what could generate x's like that. Are you able to contact the people who produced it?
Thanks for making the file available.
The file name is of course unchanged on my machine.
Both Catalina and Monterey Keynote show those X's in the content. Also MS Powerpoint on Catalina shows the same X's. Pages 39=40 or 40-41 depending on which app is being used. Perhaps those pages of the file are broken before you got it?
Ozgrin wrote:
Could this problem be due to something happening during the upload to Moodle/downloading from Moodle to my computer?
I have no experience with Moodle, but filename corruption is something that is not uncommon when stuff gets transferred between various systems. But those two pages seem like something that was more likely botched at creation. I would think others would see that too and have complained to the author.
I am indeed trying to open a powerpoint file using keynote. This also happens with other powerpoint files (all lecture presentations from the same lecturer).
Here's a link to one of those files.
This also happened to me, momentarily, on a .pdf file I received by e-mail. Restarting the mail app fixed it.
If the file name was in Hebrew then likely it was flagged for that "foreign" characters. Sometimes these forums get spammed with "foreign" language posts that look like the characters in the columns of your initial post.
What do you mean by "filename is unchanged"? Do you see the original filename or the skewed one?
Just checked the same file on my windows machine, the filename appears fine, but indeed pages 39-40 are faulty on windows as well.
I am also getting the following message about missing fonts:
Could this be related to the filename being skewed on my machine?
This is what I see too when I go to that link.
This file is basically the lecture notes I downloaded from the course's Moodle website using my Mac. As soon as I downloaded it, it got formatted that way. Then, I uploaded it to my google drive from my Mac, which is why the filename is skewed on that link.
I can try contacting my lecturer, however I'm not sure how helpful this could be.
Could this problem be due to something happening during the upload to Moodle/downloading from Moodle to my computer?
The link did not appear, try that again.
I tried to paste the link into the reply box but the post was immediately deleted. What service can I upload this file to so that I can link to it here?
What type of link was it?
It is likely that the forum administrators though it was SPAM or other prohibited type links.
I got the link before they removed it and do have the pptx file. Will play with it later today
It was a link to my google drive, where I uploaded the file.
Didn't know a competing company was considered spam/harmful
Hebrew on macOS Monterey
