EncodingMaster is an excellent software tool which even boasts BATCH-PROCESSING! I am using it to convert entire folders of numerous UTF-16 text files (exported as complex HTML from FileMaker Pro 7) into UTF-8 files.
FMPro7 can export "text field contents" (as opposed to records) ONLY as UTF-16, which normally prevents users from using the client-level FMPro 7 as a broadly-compatible Web-site generator or host unless they upgrade to the FMPro Server versions ($1K+). EncodingMaster fixes this UTF-16 problem.
Note that including a HTML meta-tag specifying a "charset" DOES NOT by itself make a Web page readable correctly by a client browser. The invisible code "under" the HTML text may still contain conflicting Windows, Mac, or language-specific code that the browser (or Google's indexing and cached files!) can't display correctly. It takes an industrial-strength text-utility like EncodingMaster to correct the problem -- hopefully by batch-processing your whole Web-site.
Suggestions: The author might consider an "Advanced" setting in EncodingMaster to permit users to convert their ORIGINAL text files (instead of the admittedly safer "Save a Copy" default). In my case. all my original data resides in the FMPro database, so the exported HTML text files are easily replaced. Another option would be a user-definable target folder/path for saving converted files. Also useful would be for the program to retain the user's favorite conversion-settings as named, reloadable configuration files.
EncodingMaster
text encodings tool: convert, verify & more
Version: 1.6.1
Instantly fixes entire Web-site's hidden text encoding!
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: info630 Tuesday, October 04 2005 @ 12:49 PM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
Recommend Product: YES
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Instantly fixes entire Web-site's hidden text encoding! - thsmith
Hi "info630",Glad you liked my program.
I've added the feature to convert text files in place. What it does now, is on conversion, it moves the original files to a folder next to the originals, and then puts the converted files where the old one was.
This can leave a whole load of old files in "EncodingMaster_Originals" folders next to the original files. Which may be a pain to delete. So I provided a "Remove Old Originals" menu which will remove that folder, but only if you open that menu item.
Saturday, June 24 2006 @ 03:47 PM PDT
Instantly fixes entire Web-site's hidden text encoding! - thsmith
Hi "info630",Glad you liked my program.
I've added the feature to convert text files in place. What it does now, is on conversion, it moves the original files to a folder next to the originals, and then puts the converted files where the old one was.
This can leave a whole load of old files in "EncodingMaster_Originals" folders next to the original files. Which may be a pain to delete. So I provided a "Remove Old Originals" menu which will remove that folder, but only if you open that menu item.
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Saturday, June 24 2006 @ 03:46 PM PDT