Re: AppleScript Endec (Encoder/Decoder) 1.0.2
Re: AppleScript Endec (Encoder/Decoder) 1.0.2
- Subject: Re: AppleScript Endec (Encoder/Decoder) 1.0.2
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 12:45:24 -0800
At 11:10 -0800 2/18/01, John W Baxter wrote:
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Also tested on a little sample I've been playing with in another venue:
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-- Encoded with AppleScript Endec 1.0.2
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display dialog `C2
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" g"
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I see it only encodes the AppleScript-specific characters...I can live with
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that (although the mpw-dev list can't). The string in that sample is
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"option-z option-x option-c option-v"--as HTML entities:
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Ω≈ç√
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(HTML 4 and XHTML, that is...IE 4.5 doesn't like any of those except
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ç .)
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It decodes correctly.
I should have said: "It decodes correctly before being passed through the
list."
It won't do well at all after the Grand ASCIIfier's tender manipulations.
But few of us have a *need* to put odd characters like that into strings
(and we can use the ASCII numeric values if we do).
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA