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Rosettavert 1.4 fixes window resizing bug

My sincere apologies: Rosettavert version 1.3 has a bug in window resizing which prevents you from enlarging its […]

September 13, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Ending Mojibake with Rosettavert 1.3

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Opening old text files in non-Roman languages, you’re sure to come across mojibake, when the text is in a different encoding. Here’s a solution.

September 13, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology, Updates

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: Encoding conversion without tears

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Factoring the code better to separate reading and writing the underlying data, and converting that for display.

April 14, 2017 Macs, Technology

Introducing Rosettavert: first beta-release of a text encoding conversion tool

Do you want to convert files using non-Unicode text to modern format? Or between the 144 different encodings supported by iconv? Here’s a tool to make that easy.

April 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: huge popups, and strings too smart

Progress with Rosettavert to convert text encoding, including popup menus with 144 entries. But stumbling still on an issue of string encoding.

April 12, 2017 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: opening docs and converting text

Scripting a friendly front-end for the iconv tool to convert text between 144 different types of encoding. Also how to open as well as save documents.

April 11, 2017 Macs, Technology
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