Thanks Emmanuel and Mark!
Writing the BOM as string and the rest as string works!
Emmanuel, I did find the excellent Satimage page on Unicode, but I was
unable to deduct the solution for this particular problem, with BOM in a
UTF8 file. No doubt my fault.
Perhaps others, like me, will visit the page looking for the answer to the
same problem I had
. In that case, adding the solution you and Mark showed would make the page
even better
Again, thanks for your help!
// Richard
> Från: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
> Datum: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:35:37 +0200
> Till: AppleScript <email@hidden>
> Ämne: Re: Writing to file as UTF8 with BOM ?
>
> At 9:22 PM +0200 10/25/06, Richard Rönnbäck wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an application that requires an import file encoded as UTF8
>> with a leading BOM.
>>
>> After examining some working files with proper encoding in BBedit I
>> have concluded that the BOM seems to consist of three characters, so
>> I thought I could just concatenate those with the actual data and
>> write to file, like this:
>>
>>
>> set myBom to ((ASCII character 239) & (ASCII character 187) & (ASCII
>> character 191))
>> set myString to "Hej Hå"
>> set myCS to myBom & myString
>>
>> set myTestFile to (open for access file "Macintosh
>> HD:Users:richardr:Desktop:tjong.txt" with write permission)
>> write myCS to myTestFile as «class utf8»
>> close access myTestFile
>>
>>
>> However, neither that, nor any other combination I can think of
>> seems to do the trick.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
> I would write the BOM as ASCII:
>
> write myBom to myTestFile
> write myString to mytestFile as «class utf8»
>
> You may find our page on Unicode and AppleScript useful:
> <http://www.satimage-software.com/en/unicode_and_applescript.html>
>
> Emmanuel
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