International text (Was: "as alias" and "as file spec...")
International text (Was: "as alias" and "as file spec...")
- Subject: International text (Was: "as alias" and "as file spec...")
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 12:12:05 -0500
At 20:29 -0800 12/12/2001, Joe Kelly stated,
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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).
The Mac's International Text predates the invention of Unicode. International
text probably is invisible to those of us here is the US because we don't buy
any of the international language kits for the Mac. But if you have the
Japanese language kit installed, then you can start worrying about getting
something in international text that won't coerce nicely to 'TEXT'.
Unicode will eventually solve it all, but until then, there will be troublesome
details with difference between Unicode and international text, and what things
understand which flavors of text.
Does anyone have the Klingon intergalactic language kit? I want to keep ahead
of the curve in my development work.
ignoring case and the screams of the weak
display dialog "Prepare to die."
end ignoring
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