Hello,
I've run into an interesting snag while porting my OS 9 AppleScript-based programs to AS Studio.
One program my reporters use standardizes "slugs" (story names) and inserts byline coding when stories are created in our central database. In my AS Studio version of this longstanding program, any text that has been entered in an AS studio text field is reported as having "bad characters" by our database. If I hardcode the string in my AS Studio program and avoid the text fields (set txtByline to "Jim Trebilcock" instead of set txtByline to contents of text field "txtByline" of window "winStory"), this works fine and the database is happy.
Question: What is being returned by AS Studio text fields that is NOT being returned by a vanilla AppleScript string? How can I coerce these items out of the byline (and other) strings when read from an AS studio text field?
Thanks
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