[MlMt] counter colors

[Gavan Schneider]

On 24 Jan 2023, at 14:50, John Doherty via mailmate wrote:

> Do not know when "old-style ASCII" plists were superseded by "Apple 
> binary."
>
They have coexisted for a very long time and to all intents and purposes 
are equivalent.

I don’t believe the original readable form is ever going away, though 
it may give way in popularity to json instead of the “old” xml. The 
binary version is an optimisation to assist with rapid launch of 
applications. My understanding is that either format will be used by any 
application given this is built into the relevant system supplied 
module.

And while talking xml(aka. plist)/binary there is command line tool that 
does the conversion: xml/plist <> json <> binary <> other

	NAME
		 plutil – property list utility
	SYNOPSIS
  	   	 plutil [command_option] [other_options] file
   		          	 ...
	DESCRIPTION
	     plutil can be used to check the syntax of property list files, or 
convert a plist file from one
	     format to another.  Specifying - as an input file reads from 
stdin.
			…
	     -convert fmt  Convert the named file to the indicated format and 
write back to the file system.
	                   If the file can't be loaded due to invalid syntax, 
the operation fails. This is
	                   the only option to support objc swift formats.

Regards
Gavan
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