Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server: Several useful hints at macosxhints.com
Posted by Pierre Igot in: MacintoshSeptember 21st, 2004 • 10:48 am
The web site Mac OS X Hints is always a good read, but Rob has a particularly good crop of hints these days, at least as far as I am concerned:
- “Some info on Unicode and multilingual Macs” explains the difference between “composed Unicode” and “decomposed Unicode”. I wondered why I was getting these weird accented characters when cutting text from a French-language PDF in Preview and pasting it into a Word document. Now I know!
- “Create bootable clones via the command line” provides information on how to create clones remotely using the command line. (Carbon Copy Cloner cannot be used remotely as far as I can tell.)
- “Panther Server Mailing lists quirks” provides useful tips about using Mac OS X Server’s built-in mailing list manager Mailman — which is something that I am going to use very soon for my own Xserve running Panther Server.
- And “Repair an imapd fatal error on OS X Server” and “How to rebuild IMAP mailboxes on OS X Server” provide detailed information on problems with Mac OS X Server’s Cyrus mail service.
Good stuff!
September 21st, 2004 at Sep 21, 04 | 6:05 pm
Luckily I hardly use Carbon apps anymore but it’s interesting to see those Copy-Paste problems pinned down to the Decomposition problem.
Have you tried UnicodeChecker’s utility window with its Normalisation tool? Perhaps that can do the necessary conversion for you. The Unicode/Convert do Normalization Form C(omposed) and Unicode/Convert to Nomalization Form D(ecomposed) services may also do the trick.
Let me know how/whether this works as it’s always good to see formerly unknown uses for our program.
September 21st, 2004 at Sep 21, 04 | 10:15 pm
Yup, it works! Pretty cool… I might just have to post a separate blog entry about this :).
Thanks!
September 22nd, 2004 at Sep 22, 04 | 2:16 am
Very cool. It’s the first real-world non-geek usage of the feature I know of.