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The best proof for this is to make a file in Excel 2011 for MAC with special chars, save it as CSV and then open it in MAC text editor and the chars are scrambled. For me this approach worked - meaning that csv export on Excel 2011 on MAC OS has special western europeean chars inside.
In Mac OSX lion, I'm trying to set default application for specific file types. Using the below apple script, we can set the default application for the specific 'file.abc'. Tell application 'System Events' set default application of file '/Users/test/Desktop/file.abc' to '/Applications/TextEdit.app' end tell But I want to set the same application as default for all the files having the filetype or extension as 'abc'. I have tried the following to get it done.
It added an entry in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist. But the files are not opened with the specified application. Defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSHandlers -array-add 'LSHandlerContentTagabcLSHandlerContentTagClasspublic.abcLSHandlerRoleAllcom.apple.textedit' Hope somebody knows what i m missing to achieve it. Answer Found: defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSHandlers -array-add 'LSHandlerContentTaguguruguLSHandlerContentTagClasspublic.filename-extensionLSHandlerRoleAllorg.videolan.vlc' /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user.
The CSV processor on Numbers is very buggy Not very helpful. The escaped double-quotes are interfering with the processing, causing the internal commas to be mis-interpreted as delimiters. I started looking around for other editors. I briefly looked at a CSV editor called, but found that its editing powers were really quite limited.
Most critically, it had no ability to do a find and replace, and it could not copy or paste columns from other programs like Excel. Eventually, I took a look at. The spreadsheet tool can correctly read files in UTF-8, and it has all of the search and replace functions I need. It appears to be modeled on the Windows version of Microsoft Excel.
I did run into a small hitch when trying to save the file, however. It handled the UTF-8 encoding without a problem at all, but for some reason it saved it in tab-delimited format instead of CSV. However, when I checked the “Edit Filter Settings” button at the bottom of the “Save As” dialog, it gave me options for the encoding, field delimiter, and text delimiter.