spotlight search

Thanks for the txt doc. It seems to be encoded as Win 1253. I think you need to find a way to batch convert your docs to Unicode UTF-8. I don’t know of any Mac apps to do this in large numbers like you have. There are some windows apps — perhaps you can find a service or a colleague who could do it for you. For example

https://www.rotatingscrew.com/utfcast-professional.aspx

PS Are you running your MacOS in Greek or English? If English, you could try switching the OS to Greek and see if Spotlight behaves differently (a long shot but worth a try maybe).

PSS If you are comfortable with Terminal commands, the answer by Anthony O in the middle of this page

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2014069/windows-1252-to-utf-8-encoding

may work on a Mac (change 1252 to 1253), but I have never tried it.

What "conversion" process are you using? Normally "font" should not make a difference, but I don't think spotlight will be able to search anything which is not in standard Unicode. Are your docs in legacy Greek encodings like win 1253?

Thanks for the explanation. Does it really matter if you do Kern or not? It is hard to imagine how that could affect anything. It could be that the open/save operation is changing the text encoding. Could you send me one of these docs as an attachment to an email ( thgewecke at gmail dot com).

charalambosfromathens wrote:

I Don't know what is the conversion process you are talking about,

You said earlier "I have to convert each and every one of them to a recognisable by the spotlight font and save it". What exactly did you mean by that? Describe for me how are you are converting your documents to a new font, and provide the name of the new font and the name of the old one.