RE: Difference between "as alias" and "as file specification"?
RE: Difference between "as alias" and "as file specification"?
- Subject: RE: Difference between "as alias" and "as file specification"?
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:36:20 -0800
At 20:29 -0800 12/12/2001, Joe Kelly wrote:
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I've never given much thought to what "international text" was. I always
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assumed it was some kind of double byte format or more specifically unicode.
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Either way it never figured much in my scripting -- I always coerced it into
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a string when passing it to something that couldn't cope with international
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text (which seems to be most everything out there).
Neither did Apple, unfortunately, from what I could figure out. It
contains the "script" (Apple's other meaning for "Script") and "language"
codes in front of the data in the string. When the codes are for Roman and
English (0, 0) the string should be in English. For Roman, French, the
string should be in French, etc.
There was a brief time when the misc dosc (do script) event was said by
the Apple Event Registry to want an International Text string.
Unfortunately, Apple ejected the Registrar before the correction back to
string really "took". And we no longer have a useful Registry.
It's obvious *now* that Unicode is helpful here; it was far from obvious in
the late 1980s when this stuff was being worked on.
--John