Better text encoding selection UI? about hexfiend HOT 7 CLOSED

Hmm, for the specific problem of "switching through every encoding", you can leave the "Choose encoding" panel focused and switch to the next encoding by pressing down-down-enter.

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I think there is a newish API that actually guesses the encoding. Might be interesting to try and integrate that somehow.

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Yeah, integrating encoding guessing seems like an appropriate feature for a hex editor.

Also, here's an idea: add a "Text Encoding" data inspector, an even better solution to the problem of wanting to look at a bunch of different encodings at once. (It would require generalizing inspectors from their current Inspector*Endianess form, but that's not a bad thing.)

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10.10 added stringEncodingForData:encodingOptions:convertedString:usedLossyConversion:

It would be nice to convert the UTF8 inspector to be a popup for the most common encodings, and then have the option to add additional ones while keeping a filter search field.

Also making the normal Choose Encoding window use a table instead of a combo box would make it easier to select the encodings via the arrow keys.

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Hmm, not too important, but if you're going to be tabling that anyways, I'd suggest a column of checkboxes for which encodings show up in the main "Text Encodings" menu.

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That would be a handy feature.

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Wow, talk about responsiveness! Thanks for your replies.

I've tried using the down-down-enter sequence, it works, but is a little clunky. I like the idea of having a table to sift through via up-and-down arrows + adding checkboxes for them to appear in "Text Encodings" menu.

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