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Re: FoxTrot not indexing files containing utf16 tag [message #300 is a reply to message #299] Thu, 28 May 2015 10:58 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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elsacha wrote:

> We ran into a problem building an index with html files containing a utf16
> tag.

> If both lines and , are in the file, then FoxTrot indexes only the name of the
> file and does not index their contents at all.

FoxTrot relies on the Spotlight importers to extract indexable text from files; unfortunately, the RichText importer has some bugs or limitations concerning UTF-16 html files, and/or html files with incoherent charset tags.

If removing the charset=UTF-16 tag fixes the problem, maybe you can do a multi-file search and replace using, for example, TextWrangler?
If the files are really UTF-16, you may have ton convert them to UTF-8; TextBatchConv can do this.


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