The last major point update to the text and code editor came in 2014 with BBEdit 11.0 which included three years of updates. The new version includes loads of bug fixes for issues users reported, Bare Bones says, plus there are new feature additions as well.īBEdit 12 also introduces completely rewritten user experiences for Today Bare Bones is shipping the next major update to BBEdit, version 12.0, which is made for macOS High Sierra. It will start in demo mode, & when the demo mode expires it will continue to run in free mode where the features you need are still available.Earlier this year Bare Bones Software sunset its TextWrangler app and said it will focus fully on BBEdit for future versions of macOS.
You can download BBEdit for free from the link I've given. BBEdit also works with AppleScript & Automator. Try different options on copies of a couple of your files.īecause BBEdit has a command line tool, you should be able script it once you have the correct options. Using the options shown there should give a state like what you see in TextEdit. In the Save As dialog box you can choose the desired encoding, & also the line ending type if that matters.įor dealing with inverted red question marks, probably null (ASCII 0), select Text > Zap Gremlins. When you have the file correctly opened, select File > Save As. I think it would be worth trying reopening using UTF-16 Little-Endian & UTF-16 Little-Endian, no BOM to see if either of those has the file open as desired. If the file has opened as the wrong encoding, select File > Reopen Using Encoding > correct encoding.
If you let BBEdit install its command line tool you can even do this from Terminal with bbedit /path/to/filename. Is there another option for converting "UTF-16 Little Endian" to "US-ASCII" that can be automated/scripted? What is my error in the use of iconv, or in my reading of man iconv or iconv -l? I think it could be answered in one of two ways: Whether it's the correct match for "UTF-16 Little Endian" is another question, but I find nothing in the list that looks to be a better match. Clearly iconv -l says that UCS-2LE UNICODELITTLE is supported. Iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings Iconv: conversion from UCS-2LE UNICODELITTLE unsupported
UCS-2LE UNICODELITTLE looked like the best match to "UTF-16 Little Endian", but: % iconv -f 'UCS-2LE UNICODELITTLE' -t 'US-ASCII' '/Users/seamus/Documents/LTspice/Rounding demo-MacMod.asc' > '/Users/seamus/Documents/LTspice/Rounding demo-MacMod-iconvASCII.asc' # long list of character encodings which included:
I thought that the iconv tool would be perfect for this job: iconv -l I need a method (that I can automate/script) to convert these "UTF-16 Little Endian" files to "US-ASCII". The extra byte ( ¿) in the BBedit screenshot is a NUL. In an effort to clarify, I've placed a couple of screenshots below to illustrate how this file is rendered in BBedit and TextEdit. According to BBedit, the demo-MacMod.asc file reported by file -I as binary is actually: "UTF-16 Little Endian" format. My next step was to open the file in the BBedit app. All of the characters are recognizable ASCII characters - which I understand to be a subset of UTF-8. I can open and edit this file in TextEdit.
Users/seamus/Documents/LTspice/Rounding demo-MacMod.asc: application/octet-stream charset=binaryīinary?!.
asc file to learn how they were encoded: % file -I '/Users/seamus/Documents/LTspice/Rounding demo-MacMod.asc' asc files were not ASCII-encoded, and so I ran the file utility on the. LTspice provides a GUI for creating a circuit schematic, and LTspice creates a plain text file (.asc extension) to encode the schematic and other directives and parameters created in the LTspice GUI this is the file I need to convert. There is also a Windows version of LTspice. I use an application ( LTspice) on my MBP occasionally.
Also, please note that the 3rd party app is not the subject of this question - understanding how to reconcile the different character sets used in macOS is the subject. I'm in unfamiliar waters here, so please indulge my ignorance. I need to convert the character encoding in some text files created by a third-party app on my MBP Catalina 10.15.6.