First: thank you for coding such a handy software. Unfortunatly I have 2 big Problems:

- using “Umlauts” (like ä, ü etc.) the whole convertion will not function - I can only save files with version-0.01 (on OS 10.3.9)

Any ideas?

I will look into these issues ASAP. Thanks for your interest!

Just wanted to say that this looks like a very helpful project. Unfortunately, I couldn’t save or convert anything! I look forward to seeing this in action though. Thanks for your work.

John

I’ve been experimenting with your CocoaTextile.app this evening and I must admit it’s a pretty cool idea. I’m completely surprised that something like this isn’t already a little bit further along.

I did want to give you a quick bug report on two issues that I found.

1) use lib ”.” inside the markdown.pl file doesn’t appear to work under the standard perl on OS X 10.4.10. Error being that Text::Textile isn’t found in @INC. I changed that to the following and it seemed to work fine.

BEGIN { use File::Basename; unshift(@INC, dirname($0)) }

2) The program isn’t unicode safe. The program totally choked on some Chinese that I threw at it. Go ahead and try pasting this into CocoaTextile. Note that the Ruby “RedCloth” library is UTF-8 safe. If you want to keep using a script for this, perhaps RedCloth would be a good choice.

Something in ASCII

但是大部分的时候我用中文来写.

3) If you get CocoaTextile tested enough, you could probably encourage some other people to join on the project, perhaps even porting RedCloth to Objective C so that the preview of Textile could be done real time :-)

You’re off to a great start. Best of luck-

Ryan Erwin Shanghai, China www.ryanerwin.com

Surprise. Didn’t realize that you already use Textile in the comment box. Just try pasting the following into CocoaTextile and you’ll see what I mean about UTF-8 support: