Getting Kanji from a .csv file

[Tim Selander]

I do a lot of work with kanji; but not much with kanji and 
LiveCode, so I didn't jump into this thread earlier...

Actually, the way TextEdit handles kanji is a complete mystery to 
me. Files it ought to open correctly, it doesn't. For example, 
TextEdit bungles the .csv files I output from Numbers. Yet, if I 
open the .csv with a text editor that supports different 
encodings, such as TextWrangler, the Numbers exported .csv opens 
properly (readable) and reports itself as a UTF8 encoded file.

Another nice feature of TextWrangler is that if you open a file 
with the wrong encoding and you see a screen full of garbage, TW 
has a menu option to re-open the current file with a different 
encoding of your choice.

Another quick way to check on the true encoding of a text file 
(.txt) is to open it with a browser, and then use the browser's 
"view with encoding xyz" feature until you get a readable page.

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan

On 6/7/13 12:58 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote:
> TextEdit, I had lost all the Kanji again. This surprised me because I
> thought that TextEdit was a UTF8-compliant app.