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.
Sierra
How can you get the Unicode normalised form from within an app, or when you’re writing your own tools and scripts? unorml may be just the job.
Some detailed guidance to help you make a test volume in Apple’s new APFS format, in either case-insensitive or -sensitive variant.
A quick tour through String normalisation, mapping closures, and a small burst of colour.
I never thought that I’d be writing C in Swift, even down to handling null-terminated strings. But the code works.
A basic document-based Swift app shell into which you can quickly add functional code. Saves time starting a new project.
Nearly three years after Swift was launched, its interface to macOS is still only partly complete. And the docs are misleading and contradictory. Oh fun!
Link to the slides from a masterly review by Sarah Edwards of the new log system in macOS Sierra.
Automated reporting of serious faults has helped Apple make macOS more reliable. But how do you report a bug which only the user can see?
This new version adds a Help Book, Tooltips, and supports window resizing more usefully.
The Eclectic Light Company 