Encoding Problems

You don't have to open first the textedit app. Go to the Textedit preferences, click on Open and Save tab. In the Plain Text file encoding choose "Opening files - Greek Windows".

That worked for me because the txt was created and written firstly in windows.

Hope that will help you

AppleCared wrote:

When I open them in TextEdit, they change in some bunch of gibberish, like that " Ù¢Ì̃·Ï·ÌÈÙÔÔ˝ÎÔı¢·ƒ "

When you open such files in TextEdit, use File > Open from the app itself (not just double click on the file). Then you can choose the encoding in the Options part of the open dialogue (not Automatic). You might need to try more than one depending on the source.

SSend me one of the files that will not open right (tom at blue sky dot org)

Hi,

Have you try this :

Go to TextEdit ☞ Preferences, you can choose for Rich text or Plaintext.

You can also convert Rich Text to Plain Text.

(Format
☞ Make Plain Text in the TextEdit menu bar OR use the keyboard shortcut SHIFT - Command - T).

YYes, no space after tom

AppleCared wrote:

When I open them in TextEdit, they change in some bunch of gibberish, like that " Ù¢Ì̃·Ï·ÌÈÙÔÔ˝ÎÔı¢·ƒ "

Thanks for sending the file. I was not able to make sense of it and think the encoding must be corrupt or totally wrong for some reason. If you have an example in the future where you have the original Greek as well as the gibberish result, I would be happy to have another try at it.