All I wanted was a black and yellow chequered flag to signify quarantine. I thought the emoji was even better – a yellow reminder ribbon. How wrong I was.
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Version 1.1 supports three file formats, but working with HTML is not easy, as it cannot (yet) support bimodal text.
Which app should you use when you want styled or Rich Text to remain readable whether it’s displayed in Light or Dark Mode?
You open a Secure Note or other text, only to see its content seems to have vanished when viewed in Dark Mode. Here’s how to fix it.
We’re still writing most text in black on a white background on displays with wide colour and high-resolution. Why not use colour for additional meaning?
Trying to work with Unicode can be frustrating at times. Here’s an excellent free book with valuable practical tips for all users, and much more for linguists too.
Global Dark Mode poses problems with styled text which cannot be solved well without giving the user control over the mode used by that app.
Telling what a file is – whether plain text, Unicode UTF-8, 32-bit code, and so on – can be hard. Just use a little magic, free in the command tool ‘file’. Includes Swift code to access magic numbers.
How would you compare two text files to see what differences are between them? It’s still a common task, for which FileMerge and BBEdit can be excellent solutions.
How to convert the text content of text, HTML, RTF, Word .doc and .docx, Webarchive, and other files, for free, using a simple command tool.
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