I regret that I have just had to tighten restrictions on making comments across this blog. Because one […]
Category Archive: Language
When you write a comment to an article here, or edit a Property List, you’re editing XML. Two or three characters won’t work properly.
How Café and Café are actually different, and only one of those can be a filename in macOS, despite APFS being a non-normalising file system.
Time to speak Klingon to your Mac. Or, rather, don’t try this at home or you could end up with mixed languages, and Help pages in something else.
Preview now offers a tool to redact content from PDF documents. It’s simple to use, but is it safe, or could it lead to disclosure of sensitive information?
At the end of October, some of you who follow this blog by email started reporting to me […]
What’s the harm in using a tool to apply ‘styles’ to plain Unicode text in a tweet, or similar?
Utility to convert text files between different code pages and formats now runs native on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.
How to analyse text in any combination of 8 major languages into parts of speech, and make word frequency counts, all for free.
How to hide text so that it can’t be searched or analysed, and how file naming almost brought APFS down.
The Eclectic Light Company 