SilentKnight was producing some results in a mixture of English and Dutch. Its environment settings needed correction. When that didn’t fix it, I looked deeper to find language-unfriendly design in a command tool.
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macOS Help system was last revamped in High Sierra, and has worked well. Until Big Sur has problems finding Help books, and shows some in French. How Help should work.
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.
This linguistic analysis tool uses macOS to identify languages, parse them into grammatical types, even analyse word frequencies.
The fine line between precision and obscurity examined in the Finder, against Apple’s Style Guide, and its accuracy. And what does HD stand for?
There may even be a few good reasons for you wanting to obfuscate your code. Perhaps you don’t […]
Presenting two or more versions of the same text close together is a challenge. Here’s how I arrived at one solution, and implemented it.
Ever wished you could read an original and translation of text right next to one another? Now you can do it easily in this new version.
What do you do if your Mac starts up in the wrong language, or even worse if it’s stuck in the wrong keyboard when you’re trying to type in your password?
