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isw wrote:
> David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> wrote:
>> isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
>>> I collect recipes. Of course, recipes frequently use amounts such as
>>> "1/2" or "1/4".
>>
>>> Sometimes, when I import recipes into Mac Gourmet from certain web
>>> sites, the fraction is sort of "compressed": the slash overlaps the
>>> digits in an odd way. Doesn't happen with many sites, but "Food
>>> Network" is one.
>>>
>>> Doing a manual edit to fix the problem, it appears that there is
>>> some invisible thing in there -- it takes three "delete" strokes to
>>> get rid of the 4 and the / of "1/4", for example.
>>
>> I believe you're asking about 8-bit characters, such as 1�2, ⅓, ,⅔ ¼
>> and ¾ (unicode 00BD, 2153, 2154, 00BC and 00BE).
>
> I don't think that's the problem. In fact, I have text substitution set
> up to replace "1/2" with the little one, and so forth. The replacement
> does not take place with the "raw" text, but does happen after I re-type
> the offending fraction, so I think that what is visible is not just a
> forward slash and a digit. Also, the need to do three "delete"
> operations to get rid of two visible glyphs ("/" and "4") is
> inconsistent with it being a single character.

I think David is on the right way here. MacGourmet isnot UTF-8 nor 
UTF-16 compatible. It can handle various formats directly from a variaty 
of website recipe libraries - those mostly based on HTML, XML or PDF but 
also some various plain text sites. So it depends on from where you 
import....

I had many problems solving these problems when I made the Danosh 
translation of the MacGourmet 3.x and I gave up and just let the paths 
stay 'as is' - including " / " ",/ ",/,' etc. and only translated the 
text around these paths.

After saving the localization file I could then open it in XCode and fx. 
correct a ",/," to " / " (the empty space represents a ciffer value from 
0-9)

If it can help, the text parts of the 'engine' is nearly of same modus 
as the one used in Apple Pages. But Mariner chose not to use Unicode as 
the standard in MG3.x.

I'll suggest that you try to import to either Pages, NisusWriter Pro or 
OpenOffice and 'clean' the text before saving as a PDF or TEXT file 
which you then import to MacGourmet. - I know it's a kind of 
double-work, but I think it's the only way to make a work-around. We 
have the same problems in Danish where 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 3/4 etc are equal 
to ⅓ ⅔ ¼ etc.

Cheers, Erik Richard




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Text Question isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2013-11-18 12:09 -0800
  Re: Text Question David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2013-11-18 15:47 -0600
    Re: Text Question isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2013-11-18 22:08 -0800
      Re: Text Question ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2013-11-23 01:14 +0100
  Re: Text Question Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2013-11-19 01:40 -0500
  Re: Text Question Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-11-22 16:38 -0800
    Re: Text Question isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2013-11-22 22:21 -0800

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