hoakley December 3, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last big batch of notarized apps for Mojave

I have now cleared my backlog of apps to be notarized for your added security, particularly in Mojave. These are:

DeepTools version 1.2, which provides three apps for ensuring that document versions get copied and moved properly: deeptools12
and from Downloads above.

Rosettavert version 1.2, which converts between different text encoding schemes: rosettavert12
and from Downloads above.

SearchKey version 1.2, which helps you use extended attributes to enhance Spotlight searches: searchkey12
and from Downloads above.

SearchKeyLite version 1.2, which gives simpler access to extended attributes for Spotlight searches: searchkeylite12
and from Downloads above.

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Giorgio on January 7, 2019 at 12:37 pm

First of all congratulation on your web site, all the sections are very interesting and eloquently written.

I downloaded Rosettavert today, but unfortunately the text on the left window does not produce any output on the right side when clicking “convert”.
Am I missing a library or something else?

Thank you in advance for your reply and for your kindness in providing so many useful utilities.

Kindest regards,

Giorgio

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  hoakley on January 7, 2019 at 1:18 pm
  
  Thank you.
  This is one of the problems with the underlying tool. You have to know exactly which format the ‘input’ file is at the left. One way to do this is to iteratively select the likely format, starting perhaps with UTF-8. One common setting which works with a lot of text files is UTF-8 at the left and UTF-16 at the right.
  Sadly, there’s no robust way of detecting the input file format in software, as far as I can tell.
  Once you’ve got the correct format on the left, you’ll then need to select an output format at the right which the command supports. As it doesn’t list exactly what it does support, I’m afraid that can be trial and error too, only this time you’ll be informed when the command says that it can’t convert to the requested format.
  I hope that helps.
  Howard.
  
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    Giorgio on January 7, 2019 at 4:24 pm
    
    Thank you for your reply,
    I tried all the formats as input with UTF-16 as output without any readable text produced, using keyboard maestro to speed up the process.
    The input text looks like Chinese (here is a bit: 戼摯⁹瑳) and replaced my out of office message on the mail server (Outlook). I am trying to get back the original text assuming that at some point among iOS, MacOS and Windows accessing the outlook server the text encoding was modified.
    Best,
    Giorgio
    
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      hoakley on January 7, 2019 at 4:43 pm
      
      I don’t think this is the right tool for that job. Indeed, I’m not sure that there is such a tool!
      The problem is that what you are seeing has been re-encoded, most probably not in UTF-16 but in UTF-8. You can’t copy and paste it into the window, because that process will also re-encode it. The app really only works for old files which have been ported across without any re-encoding from their native systems, I’m afraid – it’s a limitation of the underlying tool.
      I wish you success at understanding what is there, but can’t suggest what to try.
      Howard.
      
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