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Re: Unicode text to integer conversion from file data

Subject: Re: Unicode text to integer conversion from file data
From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:43:41 +0200
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At 11:54 PM -0600 10/27/06, Donald Hall wrote:

set theRawData to (read theFile) as Unicode text

By default, 'read theFile' will read the file as ASCII. You saved the string "59" as "Unicode text", which really means "UTF-16". You now have 4 bytes in your file. Now you "read theFile", making the 4 bytes into 4 ASCII characters (including two '0'). That makes an odd string. You then convert it to Unicode text, where the 4 bytes will be converted into 4 unicode characters.

You should have written: (read theFile as Unicode text). That will instruct AppleScript to read the file as a UTF-16 file, which it is.

Emmanuel
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