Q: Saving .txt file in Swedish became unreadable
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Feb 7, 2016 12:51 PMby ChitlinsCC,Howdy Maria
Am I to understand that you wrote 200 pages in TextEdit before saving it even once? (If no, did this 'scramble' happen after your last save?)
Did you write IN Swedish while having your preferred language/dictionary set to some other language? >
OS X: Changing the language shown in menus and dialogs - Apple Support
OS X Yosemite: Change the language your Mac uses
What IF you changed your language TO Swedish? (see links above)
I learned the hard way to save 'iterations' of ALL important works - it only took once!
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Feb 7, 2016 12:57 PMby MariainSweden,I had saved it many many times before. The same thing happens now when I tested writing something in TextEdit, saved it several times, it still looked normal, but the next day when I opened the document up it looked exactly the same as the other one, with all the ÅÄÖ and dash gone..
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Feb 7, 2016 1:33 PMby Tom Gewecke,MariainSweden wrote:
My saving defaults for encoding were in automatic. I have tried to open it in TextWrangler and open the text in UTF-8
"automatic" is probably either Western (Mac OS Roman), Western (ISO Latin 1), or Western (Windows Latin 1). Try Mac Roman first.
You should set encoding to utf-8 rather than automatic.
If still problems, email me the doc (tom at bluesky dot org)
