>I need to make an HTML document with UTF-8 encoding. I'm on a Mac running
>Mac OS 8.5, and to my knowledge I have no tools which will allow me to just
>format UTF-8, so I will have to type in the double-byte characters it by
>hand.
The following two scripts re-encode the selected text in BBEdit to a new file or to the clipboard.
By default, it converts from MacOS Roman to UTF-8, but if you press the Command-Key, you can change these default source and target encodings.
You need the following Scripting Additions:
- "TEC" for the commands "TECGetEncodings" and "TECConvertText" :
<http://www.scriptweb.com/osaxen/tec.html>
- "Jon's Commands" for the commands "keys pressed" and "set the clipboard to" :
<http://www.scriptweb.com/osaxen/jons_commands.html>
- the "Choose item", included with the System.
Just drop the additions onto the System folder and the two compiled scripts to the "BBEdit Scripts" folder.
Georges Martin
ps: for some reason I don't understand, the "native" encoding, i.e. "macintosh", is not returned by the TECGetEncoding command. Hence the "choose item ((TECGetEncodings) & "macintosh")".
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-- Re-encode to new file
property fromEncoding : "macintosh"
property toEncoding : "UTF-8"
property prefsKey : "Command"
tell application "BBEdit 4.5"
if (the (keys pressed) contains prefsKey) then
set fromEncoding to choose item ((TECGetEncodings) & "macintosh") ¬
with prompt "Select the Source Encoding:" default item fromEncoding
set toEncoding to choose item ((TECGetEncodings) & "macintosh") ¬
with prompt "Select the Target Encoding:" default item toEncoding
end if
try
set theSelection to the selected text of first window
make new document with properties {contents:(TECConvertText theSelection fromCode fromEncoding toCode toEncoding)}
on error theErrorMsg
beep
display dialog theErrorMsg buttons {"OK"} default button 1
return
end try
end tell
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-- Re-encode to clipboard
property fromEncoding : "macintosh"
property toEncoding : "UTF-8"
property prefsKey : "Command"
tell application "BBEdit 4.5"
if (the (keys pressed) contains prefsKey) then
set fromEncoding to choose item ((TECGetEncodings) & "macintosh") ¬
with prompt "Select the Source Encoding:" default item fromEncoding
set toEncoding to choose item ((TECGetEncodings) & "macintosh") ¬
with prompt "Select the Target Encoding:" default item toEncoding
end if
try
set theSelection to the selected text of first window
set the clipboard to (TECConvertText theSelection fromCode fromEncoding toCode toEncoding)
on error theErrorMsg
beep
display dialog theErrorMsg buttons {"OK"} default button 1
return
end try
end tell
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Georges Martin <mailto:georges.martin@deboeck.be>
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Groupe De Boeck s.a. phone +32 10 48.25.72
Fond Jean Paques 4 fax +32 10 48.25.19
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) icq 32724889
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