[INDOLOGY] Help needed from Indologist with a Mac.

[Harry Spier]

Dear list members,
I've just added a feature to the Muktabodha digital library where you can
download individual files.  These are plain text files encoded in utf-8,
but I'm getting some feedback that when some users download and open these
text files, then some files display correctly but in other files the
characters with diacriticals are not being displayed correctly.

 I think this is just a Mac problem and (I don't have a Mac and my windows
computer displays correctly) and I've seen some postings about UTF-8 not
working in TEXTEDIT.

Could a Mac user download a few of the etexts from the individual file
download
https://muktalib7.com/DL_CATALOG_ROOT/MUKTABODHA-LIBRARY-IAST/UTF8-TITLE-LINK-LIST.html

see if some display incorrectly and if they do then in TextEdit change the
encoding from automatic to UTF-8 and re-open the file.
The instructions I've seen for doing this in  TextEdit are:
In the TextEdit app  on your Mac, choose File > Open, then select the file
(don’t open it).
Click Options in the lower-left corner of the window.
Click the Plain Text Encoding pop-up menu and choose an encoding.

Thanks,
Harry Spier
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