[Athen] Best text editor to use for preparing transcript upload

[Howard Kramer]

Hi Ken,

I also noticed I had encoding set to ansi on Notepad. I suppose that could
have also been the problem. Sounds like Wordpad is the better choice
however. Thanks for your response.

Regards,
Howard

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Petri, Kenneth <petri.1 at osu.edu> wrote:


> Howdy Howard,

>

>

>

> I know both Terry and I used WordPad for our demo, but the rationale for

> the choice was driven by NotePad not being able to properly handle

> unix-style line endings.

>

>

>

> When you download a plaintext file encoded on a linux or mac box, if you

> open it on Windows with NotePad, NotePad will often treat the file as a

> long string with no line breaks.

>

>

>

> Traditionally, Windows line breaks are a carriage return + a line feed;

> whereas on unix-y machines a line feed alone is used. WordPad is “modern”

> enough to know what to do with the unix-style line endings; NotePad only

> honors the Windows \r\n style line breaks.

>

>

>

> This may have something to do with the odd characters. My guess would be

> that NotePad is including the carriage returns and YouTube is rendering

> them out as something undesirable. But that’s only a guess…..

>

>

>

> Cheers,

>

> ken

>

>

>

> [image: The Ohio State University]

> *Ken Petri*

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>

>

> *From:* hkramer.atsol at gmail.com [mailto:hkramer.atsol at gmail.com] *On

> Behalf Of *Howard Kramer

> *Sent:* Monday, December 07, 2015 1:59 PM

> *To:* Petri, Kenneth <petri.1 at osu.edu>

> *Cc:* Terrill Thompson <tft at uw.edu>; Sean Keegan <skeegan at gmail.com>;

> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> *Subject:* Best text editor to use for preparing transcript upload

>

>

>

> Hi Ken,

>

>

>

> At the presentation the three of you did a couple of weeks ago (thanks

> again!), did you mention Wordpad as the preferred text editor for preparing

> transcripts for uploading to YouTube for automatic syncing. I've noticed

> that when I used Notepad I'm getting extended ascii characters in the

> uploaded transcript which I assume are formatting controls. I cced this

> question to ATHEN because I thought others would appreciate the tip.

>

>

>

> Thanks,

>

> Howard

>

>

>

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>

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Howard Kramer
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