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Apfelstrudel

Updates to Apfelstrudel (Unicode), AppexIndexer (Appexes), Ulbow (logs) and Versatility (versions)

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Wrangle Unicode normalisation, discover all the app extensions in your Mac, browse the log with nanosecond times, and preserve documents versions when moving them.

June 30, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Updates: Alifix 1.3, Apfelstrudel 1.5, DelightEd 2.1, Dystextia 1.8, Nalaprop 1.2 and Podofyllin 1.2

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Refresh Finder Aliases, explore Unicode normalisation, create rich Rich Text Documents, obfuscate text with Unicode, parse multilingual text, and view and analyse PDF documents.

June 17, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

Explainer: Unicode, normalization and APFS

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.

May 8, 2021 Language, Macs, Technology

unorml, a command tool to normalise strings, now a Universal binary

Normalises strings to any of the four standard Unicode normalisation forms C, D, KC or KD, supplied with source.

September 4, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Fun and confuddling with Unicode

How to hide text so that it can’t be searched or analysed, and how file naming almost brought APFS down.

August 21, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Apfelstrudel version 1.4 is now a Universal App

Universal App which gives deep insight into Unicode normalisation problems, string comparison, and more.

August 18, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Watch that space: More fun with Unicode in file names

How can you put four files with apparently identical names in the same folder? Here’s the secret, and the magic of Unicode.

January 11, 2020 Macs, Technology

Dystextia and Apfelstrudel updated

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Dystextia encodes and decodes obfuscated or spoofed Unicode text. Apfelstrudel analyses Unicode normalisation, ideal when working with text on computers.

June 8, 2019 Macs, Technology

Text Utilities Support

This page is for your support questions and comments on my free utilities Dystextia, which demonstrates obfuscation of […]

June 7, 2019 Macs, Technology

Two more notarizations: Cirrus (for iCloud) and Apfelstrudel

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Both apps have been notarized now, for added security protection, particularly when used in Mojave.

November 8, 2018 Macs, Technology

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