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:
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)
That "intermediate format" is called UTF8 and is what Mac OS X uses
internally to store file names. You can provide such a path by
specifying "posix path" in AppleScript.
No, that doesn't work, though. That's my point. UTF8 doesn't work.
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