Hi All,
An important customer of mine has requested that all documents, sent to him,
are UTF-8 encoded.
This concerns PDF files, text files, Word, Excel, picture files.
I did some tests, but can’t figure out how to do that.
If, e.g., I look at a pdf file in BBEdit, it says ‘Mac Roman’.
Then I
sult.
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Hi All,
An important customer of mine has requested that all documents, sent to him,
are UTF-8 encoded.
This concerns PDF fil
Hi Rudy,
IMHO UTF-8 encoding only makes sense in the context of plain text files
(character based files like txt, csv, tsv, xml, json, html,...). But it has no
meaning for binary files (PDF, pictures).
xlsx and docx files are essentially zip archives containing a bunch of xml
files. For xml fil
alternative solutions for guessing plain text encoding
https://opensource.google/projects/ced
also
https://github.com/miyako/4d-plugin-text-convert
$err:=CP Get good encodings ($euc;$codepages)
$err:=ICU Get good encodings ($euc;$encodings;$languages;$confidences)
but I agree with Koen, to
Thanks for the insights guys.
I was already suspicious about the whole requirement, because I had a feeling
this was not correct.
After discussing again with the customer, it became clear that there was an
error in communication.
It’s the old dutch / French thing in Belgium, especially if one
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