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Extract text out of NSAppleEventDescriptor

I am unable to extract the text from an NSAppleEventDescriptor into an NSString.

Here is the AppleEvent:

{ 1 } 'aevt':  aevt/ansr (i386){
          return id: 669057032 (0x27e10008)
     transaction id: 0 (0x0)
  interaction level: 112 (0x70)
     reply required: 0 (0x0)
             remote: 0 (0x0)
      for recording: 0 (0x0)
         reply port: 0 (0x0)
  target:
    { 1 } 'psn ':  8 bytes {
      { 0x0, 0xed0ed } (InCopy)
    }
  fEventSourcePSN: { 0x0,0xed0ed } (InCopy)
  optional attributes:
    < empty record >
  event data:
    { 1 } 'aevt':  - 1 items {
      key '----' - 
        { 1 } 'list':  - 1 elements {
          { 1 } 'TEXT':  188 bytes {
            "

Here are the things I have tried:

(gdb) po [replyDescriptor descriptorAtIndex:1]
<NSAppleEventDescriptor: [ "\D\e\t\t\e\ \e\r\ \e\n\ \t\e\k\s\t\.\r\S\k\r\i\v\e\r\ \l\i\n\j\e\ \2\.\ \N\y\ \s\e\t\n\i\n\g\ \l\i\n\j\e\ \2\.\r\D\e\t\t\e\ \e\r\ \l\i\n\j\e\ \3\.\r\L\i\n\j\e\ \4\ \e\r\ \s\l\u\t\t\e\n\.\r" ]>
(gdb) po [[replyDescriptor descriptorAtIndex:1] descriptorAtIndex:1]
<NSAppleEventDescriptor: "\D\e\t\t\e\ \e\r\ \e\n\ \t\e\k\s\t\.\r\S\k\r\i\v\e\r\ \l\i\n\j\e\ \2\.\ \N\y\ \s\e\t\n\i\n\g\ \l\i\n\j\e\ \2\.\r\D\e\t\t\e\ \e\r\ \l\i\n\j\e\ \3\.\r\L\i\n\j\e\ \4\ \e\r\ \s\l\u\t\t\e\n\.\r">
(gdb) po [[[replyDescriptor descriptorAtIndex:1] descriptorAtIndex:1] stringValue]
<object returned empty description>
(gdb) 


I only get an empty string. What should I do in this case?

Ivan
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