Hello,
Most of the text files on my Windows PC are in Central European (Windows Latin 2) encoding. When I opened one of these files in TextEdit, it didn't display Central European characters correctly. I went to TextEdit > Preferences > Open and Save. In the "Plain Text Encoding" section of the dialog window, I opened the "Opening Files" drop down list. It was set to automatic and there was no Central European (Windows latin 2) encoding in the list. So I chose the "Customize Encodings..." menu item and added Central European (Windows latin 2) to the list (but I left the "Opening Files" item set to Automatic). Then I tried to open a Windows text file with Central European encoding but it didn't display correctly again. So, the only way for me to have TextEdit open Windows Latin 2 files correctly is to choose "Central European (Windows latin 2)" from the "Opening Files" menu mentioned above. Of course, this affects the few UTF-8 text files I have - these don't display correctly with this setting. Is there any way for TextEdit to recognize character encoding correctly (namely, to distinguish between Windows Latin 2 and UTF-8)?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have.
Most of the text files on my Windows PC are in Central European (Windows Latin 2) encoding. When I opened one of these files in TextEdit, it didn't display Central European characters correctly. I went to TextEdit > Preferences > Open and Save. In the "Plain Text Encoding" section of the dialog window, I opened the "Opening Files" drop down list. It was set to automatic and there was no Central European (Windows latin 2) encoding in the list. So I chose the "Customize Encodings..." menu item and added Central European (Windows latin 2) to the list (but I left the "Opening Files" item set to Automatic). Then I tried to open a Windows text file with Central European encoding but it didn't display correctly again. So, the only way for me to have TextEdit open Windows Latin 2 files correctly is to choose "Central European (Windows latin 2)" from the "Opening Files" menu mentioned above. Of course, this affects the few UTF-8 text files I have - these don't display correctly with this setting. Is there any way for TextEdit to recognize character encoding correctly (namely, to distinguish between Windows Latin 2 and UTF-8)?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have.