Re: Strange character changes

Thanks Emmanuel

I did try what you suggested:

write write_to_disk to fileID as string

Which I thought, from your explanation would work, but for some odd

reason, it didn't.

It also just butchered : Delerium (Featuring The Mediæval Bæbes) into

Medi¾val B¾bes.

I added as string to this line - to see if it would help:

set write_to_disk to current_song & " - " & current_artist & return as string

But, unfortunately, no dice.. or in this case, correct characters.

I did try opening it in various UTF-16 formats, but I get what appears

to be Chinese or Japanese characters - I also tried the UTF-8 formats,

which yielded better results, but still presented the special

character problem.

Any more ideas?

Thomas.

On 10/30/06, Emmanuel <email@hidden> wrote:

At 1:39 PM -0500 10/30/06, W. Thomas Leroux wrote:

>I've written a little applescript that takes the currently playing

>song name and artist name and writes them to disk

>

>However, I noticed that names with "odd" characters show up oddly, for

>example, Björk gets saved as Bjsrk

>

>Relevant code:

>

>

>set current_song to (name of current track) as string

>set current_artist to (artist of current track) as string

>set write_to_disk to current_song & " - " & current_artist & return

>

>set fileID to open for access file file_location with write permission

>set eof of fileID to 0

>write write_to_disk to fileID

>close access fileID

>

>Any suggestions?

Most probably write_to_disk is a Unicode string. When it stores a

Unicode string, AppleScript writes by default a UTF-16 file. This is

somehow very surprising - and very logical at the same time - and

it's normal that non-specialists be bitten.

So, I think you must choose either to read the file as UTF-16

(TextEdit can do that), or to write the file as Mac-Roman, with:

write write_to_disk to fileID as string

Emmanuel

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