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Fixing Garbled Text: Reopening a File with the Correct Encoding
When you find a garbled manuscript, the first thing to do is not save it. If it is only garbled, the file is i […]
UTF-8 Conversion on Mac: Reading the Red Marking as a List of Places to Fix
When a Shift_JIS manuscript is converted to UTF-8, decoding the source correctly and selecting UTF-8 as the de […]
Recommended Mac Text Editors: Judge by Manuscript Management, Not Editing Speed
Once the number of files grows, judge an editor on two connected questions: can you keep the manuscript and re […]
Converting to UTF-8: The Three Steps and What to Check at Each One
Converting a Shift_JIS or other non-UTF-8 manuscript to UTF-8 has three conceptual stages: decode the source b […]
Automatic Shift_JIS Detection in a Text Editor, and Where It Stops Being Reliable
When you open an old manuscript, you do not choose the encoding — the editor guesses it. That guess is usually […]
Choosing a Mac Text Editor: Split Views Are Not the Criterion, Remembering Them Is
Plenty of editors split the window. The difference that matters is not whether it splits but whether it rememb […]
From a Mac Text Editor Straight to EPUB, Without a Second Application
Moving from a Mac text editor to EPUB output requires more than confirming that the prose was copied. Check wh […]
Choosing a UTF-8 Text Editor on Mac for Converting from Shift_JIS
For a Shift_JIS-to-UTF-8 job on a Mac, choose a text editor that does more than open the file. It should ident […]
One Mac Text Editor All the Way to EPUB, Without Hunting for a Second Tool
Taking a manuscript to EPUB in one Mac text editor is not about collecting the longest feature list. The pract […]
A Lightweight Text Editor on Mac: What Stops and What Survives on Huge Files
"Lightweight" on its own decides nothing when you are choosing an editor for long manuscripts. What […]
Large-File Text Editors: Test Editing and Search Beyond 300,000 Characters
Choose a text editor for a large file by testing an operation chain, not by accepting a “large-file support” l […]
Text Editor Preview: Verify the 0.3-Second Refresh Without Claiming Export Success
To verify a text editor preview described as updating about 0.3 seconds after editing, separate the documented […]