Text Coder Service

TextCoderService is a service plug-in that will convert text in one format into another from any application that supports the Services menu available in Mac OS X (virtually any Cocoa app and many Carbon apps). It supports the following conversions:

• Base-64 to UTF-8: Decodes the selected Base-64 text and converts it to UTF-8.
• Base-64 to UTF-16: Decodes the selected Base-64 text and converts it to UTF-16 (big or little endian).
• FourCharCodes to Hex and Comment: This is mainly for programmers. It converts any Mac-style FourCharCodes into their hex equivalent and adds a comment showing the ASCII equivalent. This is useful for converting FourCharCodes into hex constants for compilers that do not support FourCharCodes. For example, it converts:
  
  enum
  {
  kMyConstant1 = 'abcd',
  kMyConstant2 = 'bcde'
  };
  
  into
  
  enum
  {
  kMyConstant1 = 0x61626364, // 'abcd'
  kMyConstant2 = 0x62636465 // 'bcde'
  };
  
• Hex to C-style Byte Array. This is mainly for programmers. It converts a
  raw hex array into a C-style array that can be included directly in code.
  For example, it converts:
  
  001122334455
  
  into
  
  static const uint8_t kMyArray[] =
  {
  0x00, 0x11, 0x22, 0x33, 0x44, 0x55
  };
  
• Hex to UTF-8: Converts hex into UTF-8.
• Hex to UTF-16: Converts hex into UTF-16 (big or little endian).
• Java Unicode Escape: Escapes any non-ASCII characters in text using the standard \u syntax (e.g. \u00E9 for an e with an accent).
• Java Unicode Unescape: Unescapes any \u-escaped sequences into their Unicode equivalents (e.g. \u00E9 into an e e with an accent).
• Number to Binary/Decimal/Hex/Octal Number: Converts a number to its Binary/Decimal/Hex/Octal equivalent number (e.g. 10->1010 (binary), 0x10->16 (decimal), etc.).
• UTF-8 to Base-64: Encodes text as UTF-8 then encodes that as Base-64.
• UTF-8 to Hex: Encodes text as UTF-8 then encodes that as hex.
• UTF-16 to Base-64: Encodes text as UTF-16 then encodes that as Base-64.
• UTF-16 to Hex: Encodes text as UTF-16 then encodes that as hex.