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Re: Folder Action the Cocoa Way



Uli Kusterer wrote:
Am 26.06.2006 um 01:05 schrieb John Stiles:
I will warn you that if the path can have non-ASCII characters in it—and this can be true even on American systems, if your users have creative hard drive names—your script won't run. AppleScript in general does an awful job with Unicode. This has bit me in the past. 

If you want a long version of this problem and an explanation:

<http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/x2005-03-10b.htm>
Interesting read, and an important warning... but it actually didn't even mention the issue that I was referring to!
I was thinking more about folder or file names with 日本語 (Japanese) or other non-ASCII scripts in them.
There's no easy way to pass these paths into AppleScript at all; they choke the compiler. You have to convert them to some intermediate format that only uses ASCII.
(As I mentioned, file:// URLs are one way)
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