Re: AppleScript e-mail encode/decode tool
Re: AppleScript e-mail encode/decode tool
- Subject: Re: AppleScript e-mail encode/decode tool
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 05:02:13 -0500
on 2/19/01 2:13 AM, Joshua Juran at email@hidden wrote:
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That's C++. You think I'm some kind of masochist?
That clinches it!
:-)
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I think a common format for encoded scripts should be agreed on, and then
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list members can use whatever tool they prefer to decode them.
Agreement on a common format, from this list? You are an optimistic
masochist!
;->
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Any 8-bit character could appear in a quoted string, so the encoding should
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handle all of them.
My only concern is to make sure a script copied from an e-mail message will
compile. What people type into their quoted strings is a different issue.
The user can fix that without much difficulty. It's the failure to compile
that may throw some users for a loop.
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Since the Web doesn't use the Mac character set, some scripts can't be
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successfully represented in HTML.
I'm not sure this is so. All the characters that are legal in AppleScript
can be represented on the web by "special characters" recognized by Netscape
and MSIE (even if they aren't all legal HTML). And every character I've ever
wanted to use between quotation marks can, too (curly quotes, elipsis,
etc.).
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