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Hello everyone
I have a problem when I want to write in an arabic using TextEdit it write Characters separated !! how I can fix that ?
when I receive text file from another Windows user and I open it with TextEdit or TextWrangler it show unreadable symbols !!!
I would like to fix that 😟
Thank you for your help
alahmadi86 wrote:
I have a problem when I want to write in an arabic using TextEdit it write Characters separated !! how I can fix that ?
Normally this means you are trying to use some kind of Windows font. Try setting the font to Geeza Pro which provided with every Mac.
Unreadable symbols normally means there is an encoding mismatch. Do not just double click on files, but use File > Open and then try the possible text encodings to which one works best. For Arabic this would normally be Unicode UTF-8 or Arabic (ISO), Arabic (Windows), Arabic (Mac), or Arabic (DOS).
alahmadi86 wrote:
I have a problem when I want to write in an arabic using TextEdit it write Characters separated !! how I can fix that ?
Normally this means you are trying to use some kind of Windows font. Try setting the font to Geeza Pro which provided with every Mac.
Unreadable symbols normally means there is an encoding mismatch. Do not just double click on files, but use File > Open and then try the possible text encodings to which one works best. For Arabic this would normally be Unicode UTF-8 or Arabic (ISO), Arabic (Windows), Arabic (Mac), or Arabic (DOS).
Thank you so much Tom its really helped me 🙂 it worked fine with Arabic (Windows) thanks again
but I am wondering why I can not use UTF-8 ? it is available in the encoding list but when I shows it, it will tell me "could not be open ,Text encoding Unicode (UTF-8) is not applicable "! why is that ?
Thank you for your reply
Alaa
alahmadi86 wrote:
but I am wondering why I can not use UTF-8 ? it is available in the encoding list but when I shows it, it will tell me "could not be open ,Text encoding Unicode (UTF-8) is not applicable
You have to match the encoding of what you are trying to open. Otherwise you get garbage or an error message. You can only use UTF-8 if the text file you receive was created that way by the author.
Thank you so much Tom .
Regards,
Alaa
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