I've downloaded a file from the internet and when I open it, it comes out on TextEdit.
That's perfectly fine but it comes in gibberish, so I can't read it.
My default language on my Mac is english but the downloaded file is in korean, if that matters.
Help? Please and thank you!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
The first lines are:
œ¥¿¥‘ ¿˙∏¶ ¡◊ø©¡÷ººø‰
It opens on the Windows from the Notepad, like how it opens on the Mac as TextEdit.
It's also not a zip file, so I don't have to extract it and such.
When I do it on terminal, this is what it says after the file, space, dragging the file in:
/Users/***/Downloads/[하얀고양이]하느님저를죽여주세요-kjung037.txt: Non-ISO extended-ASCII text, with very long lines, with CRLF, NEL line terminators
The title of the file comes out in Korean fine, but I do not understand what terminal even does.
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PS I downloaded that file myself and used TextEdit > File > Open to display it in Korean by choosing the Plain Text Encoding "Korean (Windows, DOS)." It starts out
<하느님 저를 죽여주세요>
[프롤로그]
하느님, 저를 죽여주세요......
DUDE YES, it worked. Thank you so much.
Can you post the first couple of lines of that "text" file. It may be that, for whatever reason, the file had the wrong mime type and thus just got typed as text. The first few characters are a usually a reserved "magic" word (or "number") indicating the file kind.
The simplest way to determine the file kind is to go into terminal and type the command file followed by a space and then drag the icon of the "text" file into the terminal window. The hit return.
If it's a windows executable file will tell you that. If it's, say a zip file, then file will tell you that. In which case drop that "text" file in an appropriate unzipper to decompress it (or add a .zip extension and double click it).
If file says it's just data you may have to look at those first few characters comprising the magic number and "guess", or try to google it, or try to add an extension like .dmg and see if it can be expanded.
Apparently neither does terminal! 😁 You can change the supported font encodings with the terminal's preferences.
Oh, well, it was worth a try.
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I just realized, looking back on your posts in this thread, that you said when you view the file in windows it looks fine (Korean) but not when viewed on the Mac. Could it simply be the case that those fonts are not installed on your Mac, assuming the Mac even supports them in the first place?
X423424X wrote:
Could it simply be the case that those fonts are not installed on your Mac, assuming the Mac even supports them in the first place?
All Mac's support Korean out of the box. He also said Terminal displayed the Korean fine.
noondaywitch wrote:
try opening in Pages or Word. Or even TextWrangler.
TextWrangler is great, but neither Word nor Pages have any way to select the encoding you open something with and they would be my last choice for solving an encoding problem.
From the text provided, it looks like Korean is being read as MacRoman encoding. It probably needs to be opened instead as a Korean encoding or UTF-8.
dangitskang wrote:
The first lines are:
œ¥¿¥‘ ¿˙∏¶ ¡◊ø©¡÷ººø‰
Can you provide here what that text is supposed to look like in Korean? That would perhaps provide a clue to the encoding mismatch.
What type of file? EXE. Maybe? If so, it is a windows executable file.
Stedman
TXT.
Actually, when I download it from windows, it can read it perfectly but when I try to download it on my Mac, it just can't read it.
Does this mean, I can't read it on my Mac ever?
Most likely it is an encoding problem. Use File > Open in TextEdit and try the various Korean encodings (Mac, Windows, ISO, EUC) listed in the Plain Text Encoding menu. Also you can try UTF-8.
dangitskang wrote:
The first lines are:
œ¥¿¥‘ ¿˙∏¶ ¡◊ø©¡÷ººø‰
It sure looks like an encoding issue -- did you not try what I suggested already?
Just my ten penn'th; TextEdit often screws up on encoding issues; try opening in Pages or Word. Or even TextWrangler.
Downloaded file comes out in gibberish?
