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How can I find out the encoding of a text file through the user interface? Or is this feature not provided on Mac OS? Maybe there is some built-in program like "TextEdit" through which I can find out the encoding of a text file?
MacBook (2017)
What you want does not ship with macOS which is why BDAqua and I recommended the Terminal.
Your options:
The AppleScript to produce the above dialog was 5 lines of code, can be saved as an application, and as such, can be double-clicked in the Finder to run.
What you want does not ship with macOS which is why BDAqua and I recommended the Terminal.
Your options:
The AppleScript to produce the above dialog was 5 lines of code, can be saved as an application, and as such, can be double-clicked in the Finder to run.
Terminal (where ~ is a shortcut for your home directory representing /Users/yourname):
file --mime-encoding /path/to/file
file --mime-encoding ~/apple.txt
apple.txt: utf-8
file --mime-encoiding ~/cicero.txt
cicero.txt: us-ascii
iconv -f US-ASCII -t UTF-16 ~/cicero.txt > ~/cicero16.txt
file --mime-encoding ~/cicero16.txt
cicero16.txt: utf-16be
Far as I can tell you'll ned to use the Terminal...
Viking OS X, OK, thanks, I'll know.
I saw about the Terminal on Google - this is a common solution.
I made an emphasis on making the solution for the user, not for the programmer. An ordinary person is unlikely to be able to do this, and is unlikely to want to.
In the Finder, one can right-click on any file, choose Get Info from the secondary menu, and the resulting panel will report the kind of file.
That panel will not report the actual encoding, but will report US-ASCII or UTF-8 files as Plain Text Documents, CSV as that, Word documents as Open Office XML word processing documents, and so forth. Probably sufficient for a casual user curiosity and low tech.
What you have suggested is not a "user interface". The user interface is when the user clicks on buttons with the mouse, and does not write program code.
Mac OS. How can I find out the encoding of a text file through the user interface?
