plutil.pl v1.7

Perl implementation of OS/X plutil

Converts .plist files between binary and UTF-8 (editable) text formats.

Known Limitions:

• Output of float precision in binary format is never used
• The null, fill and uid types are not translated
• Only string objects are written once in binary format

History

• 1.0 - Original Public Release
• 1.1 - Added Date Format support - thanks, Nic Young and Erica Sadun; fixed real binary output byte order
• 1.2 - Fixed conversion of empty array - thanks msbasher
• 1.3 - Fixed conversion of empty keys and large strings - thanks Shady Zayat
• 1.4 - Redo utf8 handling - thanks msbasher
• 1.5 - now handles 8 byte integers and negative integers - thanks wave style
          also handles XML special characters in dictionary keys - thanks King Lir
• 1.6 - now handles arbitrary binary data type 4 - thanks Slow Robot
          also handles funny filenames better
• 1.7 - corrected bug in naming of binary to XML files

Please feel free to provide sample plist files that are not handled correctly and I will attempt to add support

Comments or questions? Send email to: scw@gamewood.net

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Last modified: March 10, 2008
Prepared by Pete M. Wilson
scw@gamewood.net