It sounds like you might be writing the text info the file with 16-bit
Unicode encoding. In 16 bit Unicode, each character is two bytes as
opposed to ASCII in which each character is one byte. For English, most
of the frequently used characters have the same value in ASCII and
Unicode, except that there is an additional high order byte with a 0 in
it. My guess is that the text editor you are opening it in is changing
the zeros (which do not represent a legal ASCII character) to spaces.
The first thing I would try would be to open the file in a
Unicode-aware text editor. If you have BBEdit (on the Mac) it can open
it and you can pop up a menu at the top of its document window that
will tell you whether the text in Unicode encoded.
I think you can force AppleScript to use 8-bit ASCII encoding with the
"as string" coercion.
David
On Oct 16, 2004, at 8:13 PM, John Mistler wrote:
I am writing a text file to disk from my application with the
following:
on writeFile(theText, targetFile)
set the targetFile to the tartgetFile as text
set the openTargetFile to open for access file targetFile with
write
permission
set eof openTargetFile to 0
write theText to the openTargetFile
close access the openTargetFile
return true
end writeFile
The file writes just fine, but when I copy the text file over to a
Windows
(yeah, I know) machine, the text has spaces in between each character
and
the carriage returns are wrong. Does anyone know how I can write the
text
so that it will transfer to Windows correctly?
Thanks,
John
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