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Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines




On Aug 26, 2008, at 04:19 , Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:


On 26 Aug 2008, at 15:04, Andrew Farmer wrote:

On 26 Aug 08, at 00:39, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
I want to open some file:

source =
"tell application "SomeApp"...

You're making things harder than they need to be.

[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openFile:@"/path/to/file" withApplication:@"SomeApp"];

As to AppleScript's Unicode support, I wouldn't be surprised if it were still unreliable.

Sorry for the badly abridged example. Actually I want to do more than just open the file.
Or is it definitely impossible to use un-American pathnames in AppleScript?


I did a test with this... it seems that the code to resolve the alias in AppleScript doesn't like
non-latin encoded pathnames. If you give it a regular file and don't ask it to resolve an
alias, it happily works... even with non-English (I don't know Thai? so I used Japanese characters
for the test, but I'm assuming it works pretty much the same--I know, dangerous to assume such
things from computers, right? :) )... but if you ask it to resolve an alias, it dies with the same
error message that you were getting (String encoded with \uNNNN in place of actual UTF-16
values).

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 >NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines (From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines (From: Andrew Farmer <email@hidden>)
 >Re: NSAppleScript shies away from porcupines (From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>)



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