Nevermind. I found out how - using the File -> Open dialog box, I can open the file using a specified character set (Read As:).
-- James
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| James Madill/mcis/mc/Duke
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I have some html files inherited from a previous webmaster that BBEdit 8.5.1 is unable to open. When I attempt to open one, I get the following error message:
This operation couldn't be completed, because an
error occurred.
One or more characters were encountered that cannot be
represented in the desired text encoding (MacOS Error code:
-8754)
After experimenting with chopping the file into pieces (head and tail operations), I was able to determine the reson for the error.
The HTML code was mal-formed. It had a meta definition for us-ascii
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
and later in the file, there were high order ascii characters (A0).
The section of the manual, 'Choosing the Encoding for a Document' (pg 26) confirms this, but does not mention anything about what to do to open a mal-formed HTML document.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can get BBEdit to open these files without resorting to splitting them, then piecing them back together?
-- James
o o o o o o o . . . _______________________ ________=======_T___
o _____ |James Madill | |Duke U. Health Sys|
>.][__n_n_| D[ ====|____ |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| | (919) 668-2411 |
(________|__|_[____/____]_|_____________________|_|__________________|
_/oo O-O-O ` oo oo 'o^o^o o^o^o` 'o^o o^o`
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