I have a strange problem that I am trying to fix without success. I
had a large batch of text files containing translations of early
Christian writings that I'm using in a corpus linguistic study. These
started out as UTF-8 files on the Macintosh but were sent to a friend
for some processing. when he returned them, it was apparent that his
processes had assumed the files to be ISO Latin-1 encoding as an input
and then saved them as UTF-8, leading to some serious garbling, things
like
ἡ μία (τῶν) σαββάτων
becoming
ἡ μία (Äá¿<p>ν) ÃαββάÄÉν
This problem is manually fixable through the following process:
1. open the file
2. change the encoding from the menu at the bottom of the text window
to ISO Latin-1
3. save the file
4. use the Reopen Using Encoding > UTF-8 command
5. resave the file
Not a big deal, but I have literally thousands of these files (some 74
MB worth) and don't want to manually process them. I don't know
AppleScript (which I am sure could be used to automate that process)
and Text Factories don't allow access to all of those steps, so I
can't use them.
Does anyone have a suggestion for an automatable process or a script
that I could use to process a large batch of files as listed above?
Best,
Arle Lommel
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