Many thanks Paul! Yes, that did the trick.
Question: Do I infer from your use of the handler that one can't directly coerce to text, e.g.,
set txtByline to content of text field "txtByline" as text
Thanks again to everyone,
Jim
This may be one of those cases where you need true blue plain text, not
merely 'string'. Coercing Unicode to string results in 'international'
styled text, which may still be considered "bad characters". Try this
instead:
on AsPlainText(textual)
(* Where 'textual' values may include plain text,'international text',
styled text, Pascal string, C string, Unicode text, and «class utf8».
Unicode characters not having a single-byte "mapping" come back as a
question mark.
*)
set {text:plainText} to textual as text
return plainText
end AsPlainText
Paul Berkowitz
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