Mac: What's ~/.CFUserTextEncoding for?
Problem
So I have this file in my home dir. Google search results are less than ideal, filled with old ugly forum pages. Apple gives me an unrelated support article. ADC gives me an unrelated technote. All I can gather thus far is that it's related to Core Foundation, and, well, some user text encoding. Anyway: Why do I have it? Can I not have it? What's it for, what does it affect? What format is it in? Should I edit it manually? Could I, regardlessly?
Error Output
.CFUserTextEncoding
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Fix for: Mac: What's ~/.CFUserTextEncoding for?
stores the default text encoding and preferred language for a user. Below is an excerpt from Technical Note 2228 of the Mac OS X Reference Library with some more information: Core Foundation tries to access the user's home directory to determine their default text encoding (stored in the file ~/.CFUserTextEncoding). If you switch the EUID to the UID of the logging in user and then call CF, you may have problems when Core Foundation accesses this file. You can prevent this access by setting an e…
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