[INDOLOGY] Help needed from Indologist with a Mac.

[Harry Spier]

Thank you Jan for identifying the problem.
Harry Spier

On Wed, Nov 27, 2024, 4:36 AM Jan Kučera <jan.kucera at ujca.cz> wrote:

> And the reason for that is because the files contain invalid UTF-8
> characters. You might be good without BOM if you fix the broken files.
>
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> As an example, in advayatArakopaniSat-M00102-IAST.txt, line 31 has “pūrṇ
> amadaḥ *�* iti śāntiḥ” where the middle character is supposed to be dash
> I assume, but it is not UTF-8 encoded. I attach list of all the files with
> invalid characters.
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> Also note that the following links are broken on the individual files page:
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> kedārakalpa
> <https://muktalib7.com/DL_CATALOG_ROOT/MUKTABODHA-LIBRARY-IAST/kedArakalpa-M00671-IAST.txt>
>
> tatvaśodhanam
> <https://muktalib7.com/DL_CATALOG_ROOT/MUKTABODHA-LIBRARY-IAST/tatvazodhanam-M00655-IAST.txt>
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> bṛhattantrasāra
> <https://muktalib7.com/DL_CATALOG_ROOT/MUKTABODHA-LIBRARY-IAST/bRhattantrasAra-M00013-IAST.txt>
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> śrīcakrasādhanam
> <https://muktalib7.com/DL_CATALOG_ROOT/MUKTABODHA-LIBRARY-IAST/zrIcakrasAdhanam-M00652-IAST.txt>
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> śrīvidyānityapaddhati
> <https://muktalib7.com/DL_CATALOG_ROOT/MUKTABODHA-LIBRARY-IAST/zrIvidyAnityapaddhati-M00654-IAST.txt>
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> Hope this helps.
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> Best regards,
>
> Jan Kučera
>
> *ल* Institute of South and Central Asia Students, Prague
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> *From:* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> *On Behalf Of *Jan
> Kucera
> *Sent:* středa 27. listopadu 2024 9:51
> *To:* Harry Spier <vasishtha.spier at gmail.com>; indology at list.indology.info
> *Subject:* Re: [INDOLOGY] Help needed from Indologist with a Mac.
>
>
>
> Dear Harry,
>
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>
> I confirm that some of the files are opened with wrong encoding in
> TextEdit. Unfortunately, TextEdit refuses to open it with UTF-8 when you
> pick it manually.
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> You could fix this by including a BOM mark at the beginning of the file.
> Let me know if you need any assistance.
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>
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> Thanks,
>
> Jan
>
>
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> *From:* INDOLOGY <indology-bounces at list.indology.info> *On Behalf Of *Harry
> Spier via INDOLOGY
> *Sent:* středa 27. listopadu 2024 2:39
> *To:* indology at list.indology.info
> *Subject:* [INDOLOGY] Help needed from Indologist with a Mac.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
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>  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.
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>
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> Could a Mac user download a few of the etexts from the individual file
> download
>
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> https://muktalib7.com/DL_CATALOG_ROOT/MUKTABODHA-LIBRARY-IAST/UTF8-TITLE-LINK-LIST.html
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> 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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