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How do I change the encoding to UTF-8 on Mac?
How to convert load files to UTF-8 in Mac
- Open TextEdit and navigate to TextEdit > Preferences… >
- Save As setting should be “Unicode (UTF-8)”
- Right-click on the file and open with TextEdit, create a duplicate by going to File/Duplicate.
- Save a copy and check to make sure its UTF-8 encoded when saving.
How do you write UTF-8 characters on a Mac?
OS X doesn’t use utf-8 for input. Normally you would use the Character Viewer (Edit > Emoji and Symbols) to input characters which are not already included in the keyboard layout via option and option plus shift. It has an option to show all of Unicode.
How do I convert an image to UTF-8?
It can be done in NotePad++ easily:
- Open binary image file into Notepad++
- Select all text (ex: Ctrl-A)
- Go to Plugins->MIMETools->Base64 Encode.
How do I change character encoding on Mac?
Choose a different encoding for one document
- 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.
- Click Open.
How do I type Unicode characters on Mac?
On your standard Mac keyboard, just type Option and the Unicode number for the character, and the character is applied to whatever text field you’re currently typing in. As an example, Mac keyboards have special symbols that indicate Control, Option, and Command (Cmd).
How can I tell if a file is UTF-8 Mac?
Determining File Encoding & Character Set via Command Line in Mac OS. Hitting return with a proper file name as the input will reveal a character set like UTF-8, us-ascii, binary, 8bit, etc. With “text/plain” being the file type and “unknown-8bit” being the character set file encoding.