Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
- Subject: Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
- From: "Arthur J Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 12:05:58 -0500
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:41:46 -0800
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From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Admin: a suggestion on the script corruption problem.
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I filed an enhancement request a month or two back for 7-bit clean
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AppleScript, i.e., nothing but pure ASCII.
Chris, you have really made my day. :)
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There are only two places where AppleScript requires the use of
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Mac-specific characters: the raw code brackets and continuation
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characters. There are several others where AppleScript prefers to use
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Mac characters, but has a pure ASCII equivalent: not-equal, greater- (or
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less-) than-or-equal-to.
Well, equivalents that are more or less useless, since the darn compiler
forces them to be replaced by their high-bit synonym.
It is rather annoying to have to:
1) Create 7-bit source code in one script editor window
2) Copy and paste window 1's content to window 2
3) Compile and test window 2
4) Make corrections in window 1 based on the errors found
in window 2
5) Repeat
... all to ensure that in the end, I can have an AppleScript that can
be posted to the list in a non-corruptable form.
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