utf formatting of colls on mac not working

    Johannes
    Nov 27 2010 | 11:34 am
    Hi all, I have a problem saving and reading a coll. I wrote a line to a coll controller, schön;
    ö is a mutated vowel in germany but in general it shouldn't be any problem for Max because it uses for all text the utf-8 encoding.
    So I saved it as a file with the ending .mms 1testcoll_new.mms This I cannot load (max-window): 1testcoll_new.mms: bad magic number coll: error reading 1testcoll_new.mms
    Then I changed the filename to "1testcoll_new.mms copy" and the read-process was successful, no error.
    On Win XP/Max 5.1.5 I dont have this problem.
    But on my mac it is crazy... Max 5.1.5 Mac 10.6.4 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
    I think the interpretation of fileextensions in the coll-object on the snow-leopard guides to this problem, but I am just guessing.
    Can anybody confirm this behaviour?
    I am grateful for any help!
    Best Johannes
    • Johannes
      Dec 13 2010 | 9:55 am
      Hi again,
      also with 5.1.7 the case did not change... can anybody reproduce on the system-environment described above?
      I made a more specific patch to show exactly the steps in detail.
      Thanks in advance! Best, Johannes
    • ch
      Dec 13 2010 | 1:15 pm
      hi,
      I can reproduce on 10.5.8 with 5.1.6 and it works if I remove the loadbang and message to max, or if I replace it by [; max system macintosh fileformat .mms TEXT] So you're right, it seems to be related to file extension association.