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EncodingMaster

EncodingMaster

text encodings tool: convert, verify & more

Version:  1.6.1

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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

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.   
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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.

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Saturday, June 24 2006 @ 03:46 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.

Reply to This

Saturday, June 24 2006 @ 03:47 PM PDT