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User profile for user: twofacedv
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Russian character encoding

While opening .txt files in Mac OS (the text in russian and usually I don't know whether it was encoded with ANSI or Windows-1251 etc) the text displays incorrectly.
Same happens with some programs (for instance, Guitar Pro 5 - the name of the composition (inside the program) is in russian - so in Mac OS I can see only unreadable symbols).

So the question is: can I add the support of Windows standart encodings for that situations not to happen?

Thank you in advance.

MacBook Pro 13", Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Nov 24, 2010 1:10 PM

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User profile for user: etresoft
etresoft
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Posted on Nov 24, 2010 1:22 PM

twofacedv wrote:
So the question is: can I add the support of Windows standart encodings for that situations not to happen?


It is already there. MacOS X fully supports Russian and most other languages too. You just happened to pick two worst case scenarios.

For Guitar Pro 5, there is nothing you can do but contact them and report the bug. That is a 3rd party product and obviously has trouble with Russian. It seems to be a cross-platform program and that is likely the reason.

Text files are always difficult. There is nothing about a text file that indicates what encoding it is. You would have to open it in something like TextWrangler that might be able to detect the encoding. If all else fails, you could try various, likely encodings until it was readable. Once you get there, save the file as UTF-8 and you won't have any more problems with it.
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etresoft
User level: Level 9
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Nov 24, 2010 1:22 PM in response to twofacedv

twofacedv wrote:
So the question is: can I add the support of Windows standart encodings for that situations not to happen?


It is already there. MacOS X fully supports Russian and most other languages too. You just happened to pick two worst case scenarios.

For Guitar Pro 5, there is nothing you can do but contact them and report the bug. That is a 3rd party product and obviously has trouble with Russian. It seems to be a cross-platform program and that is likely the reason.

Text files are always difficult. There is nothing about a text file that indicates what encoding it is. You would have to open it in something like TextWrangler that might be able to detect the encoding. If all else fails, you could try various, likely encodings until it was readable. Once you get there, save the file as UTF-8 and you won't have any more problems with it.
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